breemlib takes this file from AppleWin, and AppleWin may take this file from MAME. for AppleWin, it uses GPLv2 since 2006/02/25.
2009/10/29 Natalia Portillo <clau...@claunia.com>: > This is interesting as well, first line says: > > /* borrowed from AppleWin */ > > I suppose it means that MAME took it from the apple // emulator called > AppleWin. and. what's the AppleWin license? > El 29/10/2009, a las 00:35, Roy Tam escribió: > > I did a google code search and I found this: > http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=zh-TW&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc#yVjp3hog9Qw/trunk/breemlib/apu/ay8910/ay8910.cpp&q=ay8910 > > // > // From mame.txt (http://www.mame.net/readme.html) > // > // VI. Reuse of Source Code > // -------------------------- > // This chapter might not apply to specific portions of MAME (e.g. CPU > // emulators) which bear different copyright notices. > // The source code cannot be used in a commercial product without the > written > // authorization of the authors. Use in non-commercial products is > allowed, and > // indeed encouraged. If you use portions of the MAME source code in > your > // program, however, you must make the full source code freely available > as > // well. > // Usage of the _information_ contained in the source code is free > for any use. > // However, given the amount of time and energy it took to collect this > // information, if you find new information we would appreciate if > you made it > // freely available as well. > // > > Does it apply to this case? > > P.S.: Mail resent as I click wrong button, sorry. > > 2009/10/29 Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org>: > > On 10/28/2009 09:08 PM, Stuart Brady wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:50:11AM +0900, TAKEDA, toshiya wrote: > > + > > +/* This version of ay8910.c is a fork of the MAME 0.59 one, relicensed > > under the LGPL. > > Where have you taken this from? > > More exactly, how is this not violating copyright, since MAME's license is > > not compatible with anything else (more or less)? > > Paolo > > > > > > >
