> Ah so this is what happens when an Microsoft employee (Aaron) and a hardcore macf*g > (R.Belmont) get together, they turn Mame into a commercial and proprietary friendly > project. > > I should have figured this was going to happen...
You're a cocksmoker. Switching to an OSI-approved license would make sharing code with other emulators more workable. Right now if you mix code from MAME and a GPL project you end up with a derivative you can't legally distribute.