On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:40:25AM -0800, XulChris wrote: > I see, so the policy has changed recently then. Sorry for being out of the > loop, but I am not aware of any place where the current MAME policy is > outlined for developers.
It isn't. > It would be a shame if someone spent a lot of time > adding a new emulation to MAME only to have it rejected because the developer > was not aware of the current MAME policy. I've yet to see that happen. Warez kiddies don't make good driver programmers. I know of only one exception, and he doesn't write mame drivers, he has his own emu. > I admit I havn't perused the > readme files recently, is there anything describing the current MAME policy > in the distribution text files? No. You can thank people like lillymon and you for that. > As I stated above, I am not in the loop. Most people are excluded from these > type of dicussions, I just assumed the policy was in place due to legal > reasons. What do you think we are, stupid? We perfectly know how long copyright lasts, thank you very much. > However I guess it is really up to us to figure out on our own why > these policies are in place since they are not documented anywhere AFAIK. Well, actually reading smf's answers could help, too. OG. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame