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Offline kirch24

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MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« on: January 26, 2007, 04:41:27 PM »
is it possible to put "MAME" games on your rockbox    i have a 2GB ipod nano

its on www.mame.net
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Offline Llorean

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2007, 04:48:00 PM »
No. It is not released under a compatible license.
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Offline kirch24

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2007, 04:48:56 PM »
ohh thanks
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Offline midgey

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2007, 04:49:13 PM »
No, MAME is not compatible with the GPL which rockbox requires. Sure someone could port MAME, but it would never be included in SVN unless MAME changes their license.
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Offline PigMaster

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2007, 11:58:15 PM »
Is MAME as in the program from mame.net not compatible with the GPL, or is MAME including any program which runs MAME ROMs, like MAME32 etc. not compatible with the GPL due to copyright?
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Offline Chronon

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2007, 02:26:24 PM »
I am not a lawyer, but it certainly appears that programs that depend on MAME must be released under a license that preserves the rights of the original MAME license.  So code that is dependent on MAME would most likely pose the same problems for incorporation into a GPL project.  
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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2007, 08:28:35 PM »
how do you get games like GTA2 and pokemon? i have the sansa e200 rockbox... would that work widdit?
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Offline Febs

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Re: MAME games on ipod nano with rockbox?
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2007, 09:16:03 PM »
Quote from: jdoe on February 25, 2007, 08:28:35 PM
widdit?

Please note that our posting guidelines require you to use proper English so that the readers of our forum who are not native English speakers or who rely on machine translation can read your posts.
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