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Steve Nickolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described the package as follows: License: gpl Other License: Package: Gleam: Gnu Licensed Emulator of Arcade M System name: gleam Type: non-GNU Description: The GLEAM project intends to create a GPL-licensed emulator of arcade machines, which would be comparable in functionality to the MAME arcade machine emulator (http://www.mame.net), and run primarily on various Unices (Linux, predominantly, as that is what we currently use). We intend to provide a truly free arcade machine emulator (of course we do not plan to include any kind of illegal ROM code, nor links thereto). Our reason for starting this project is because we find MAME very useful for our purposes, but we do not agree with their non-free licensing terms, and they appear to have promised to return their code to GPL and then reneged on that promise. We will take what code we are legally entitled to (as early versions of MAME up to 0.26.1 were in fact GPLed), and clean-room implement anything we cannot utilize directly. As is MAME, GLEAM will be written primarily in C, and possibly with partial ASM (gas or nasm) sources. Our ideal target system is a high-end Pentium 3/4-class PC running a distro of Linux+GNU, but we hope to be compatible with other OSes as well. Other Software Required: We do not intend to use any non-free software dependencies. However we may need dependencies such as Allegro or SDL which, although not necessarily part of a base "Free" OS, are also free software. Other Comments: It is perhaps important to note that while non-free "ROMS" are required for most games, we will not provide them. A small number (1 or 2) of games to be supported are in the public domain. _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
