>and you need to give them the custom tools, if the latter are using GPL, then who knows what the third-party artists might request. At most, source code to th

>and you need to give them the custom tools, if the latter are using GPL, then who knows what the third-party artists might request. At most, source code to those custom tools which contain GPL licensed code. >if MAME is released under MIT/BSD then it can be freely put in consoles, gameboy, psp, etc. MAME (as a project) is now to be released under GPLv2 unless I'm missing something, but there is also a lot of BSD licensed code in MAME which can be used in proprietary projects. That said I don't think the MAME code is of particular interest to game developers, as it's basically cpu and video/sound chip emulation coupled with drivers.