MAME

MAME is a computer software program for personal computers. The purpose of MAME is to faithfully and precisely emulate as many arcade games as possible, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

MAME License

Although it allows many of the same liberties, MAME is neither free software nor open source software.

Related Topics:
Free software - Open source

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MAME may be freely distributed in source or binary form. The right to reuse source code is granted for non-commercial projects. Anyone who uses source from MAME must also make their project's source code freely available.

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Derivative works are allowed (although in some cases discouraged; the MAME team would rather have contributions submitted to the main project). There are some restrictions on what derivative works can change. Especially, derivatives are forbidden from enabling games which are purposefully disabled. As discussed above, this helps ensure MAME does not take revenue from real arcades.

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