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[–]TheMogMiner (aka Ryan Holtz aka MooglyGuy)

Actually, he doesn't need to ask for the team's permission to continue to release MAMEUIFX. He needs to ask permission from his contributors to relicense before he can link back to the new MAME-licensed code. That's all.

As for Mamesick, he's made it abundantly clear over the years that he absolutely despises the entire team, does not care one whit about accurate emulation, and would gladly see everything that the MAME team has accomplished over the past 19 years razed to the ground if it meant him and his crews of sycophants have one more "playable" game. Now he's decided to take his ball and go home, and wants to make it out like he's the poor, downtrodden victim here, and you bought into it hook, line and sinker. Well done.

The fact of the matter is that he's been abrasive towards the team at best and downright abusive towards the team at worst. He is an objectively terrible person, and the fact that he's managed to get people like you to buy his flimsy justification for quitting "da sk3n3" hook, line and sinker should just stand testament to that. Nobody on the MAME team made him quit. He's just been progressively more and more butt-hurt on the MAMEWorld forums for the past two weeks since we've started making improvements that target more modern systems, rather than ten year old PCs that people have literally found in dumpsters.

Sorry to break it to you, but there's always progressive brain-drain in any long-term project, and ultimately the people who join the MAME team to contribute are going to be the ones who have more modern systems, not the ones who are trying to get MAME working on a 486 that they traded for a dime bag. Them's the breaks.