[MPlayer-dev-eng] Borrowing code for xmame

[Michael Niedermayer]

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

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Michael