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I. Purpose
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-MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a
-reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is
-done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in
-order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the
-hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the
-games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original,
-you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
-nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.
-
-It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the
-original games. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely
-available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs,
-CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by
-the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the
-executable.
+MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a
+reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is
+done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in
+order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the
+hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the
+games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original,
+you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
+nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.
+
+It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the
+original games. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely
+available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs,
+CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by
+the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the
+executable.
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II. Cost
--------
-MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
+MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.
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III. Image Files
----------------
-ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
-be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
-They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
-passed out of copyright.
+ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
+be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
+They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
+passed out of copyright.
-MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
-infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
-sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM,
-CD, or hard disk images.
+MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
+infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
+sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM,
+CD, or hard disk images.
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IV. Derivative Works
--------------------
-Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license. However, you are
-discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the
-philosophy of the MAME team. Specifically:
+Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license. However, you are
+discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the
+philosophy of the MAME team. Specifically:
-* Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are
-still being sold new by the company that produced them. MAME is not
-intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still
-being actively sold.
+* Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are
+still being sold new by the company that produced them. MAME is not
+intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still
+being actively sold.
-* Do not provide a means of generating a list of games that specifically
-identifies those games for which the user does not have image files. This
-only encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and hard
-disk images in order to "complete" their collection.
+* Do not provide a means of generating a list of games that specifically
+identifies those games for which the user does not have image files. This
+only encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and hard
+disk images in order to "complete" their collection.
-* Do not remove the startup screen that contains information about why
-certain non-working games don't work. This only serves to generate a
-bunch of useless email traffic to the developers asking why the games
-don't work.
+* Do not remove the startup screen that contains information about why
+certain non-working games don't work. This only serves to generate a
+bunch of useless email traffic to the developers asking why the games
+don't work.
-Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules of the
-trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name your
-derivative work. In general, this means you must request permission,
-which requires that you follow the guidelines above.
+Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules of the
+trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name your
+derivative work. In general, this means you must request permission,
+which requires that you follow the guidelines above.
-The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
-number of the MAME release it was derived from.
+The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
+number of the MAME release it was derived from.
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V. Official Contact Information
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-For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
+For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
to http://www.mamedev.org/