[MPlayer-dev-eng] Borrowing code for xmame

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:23:01PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> iam not the author of the vesa or xv stuff but iam the author of the 
> sw-scaler which is used in the vesa vo
> 
> On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:41, Lawrence Gold wrote:
> > Apologies if this is directed to the wrong address.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm the maintainer of xmame (http://x.mame.net), a port of the
> > well-known MAME (http://www.mame.net).  On several occasions, I have
> > gotten requests from users to implement certain functionality found in
> > MPlayer, such as hardware scaling using XVideo or fullscreen using VESA
> > modes.
> >
> > Would it be possible for me to borrow some of this code, if it's
> > applicable to xmame, and incorporate it into the project with a special
> > "permission is granted for use in xmame" clause?  I understand that most
> > of MPlayer is under the GPL, which is incompatible with the MAME license
> > (http://www.mame.net/readme.html) because it forbids selling.
> i noticed one thing while quickly reading through the license
> "  There are some specific modifications to the source code which go against
>    the spirit of the project. They are NOT considered a derivative work, and
>    distribution of executables containing them is strictly forbidden. Such
>    modifications include, but are not limited to:
>    - enabling games that are disabled"
> so there are games which are disabled? and which cannot be emulated because u 
> dont want them to be emulated ... i dont like that

yeah, i agree that the mame license is particularly offensive and
non-free, in that clause among others. i would recommend against
anyone giving mame special permission to use their code. if mame wants
to use gpl code, they can adopt a free license that's gpl-compatible.

just my two and a half cents...

rich