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What part of their home-brew license does not allow commercial use? MAME was not free because they explicitly said "Redistributions may not be sold, nor may th
by cowsandmilk 11y ago
What part of their home-brew license does not allow commercial use?
MAME was not free because they explicitly said "Redistributions may not be sold, nor may they be used in a commercial product or activity."
- jordigh 11y agoAnything not explicitly allowed is forbidden. That's how copyright law works. "All rights reserved" is the default. You don't even have to claim it. All rights are reserved unless you relinquish them.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Anything not explicitly allowed is forbidden. That's how copyright law works. Well, no, copyright law works by "anything explicitly made exclusive to the copyright holder by law, and not explicitly allowed by either other provisions of law or the copyright holder is forbidden, unless its in the rather ill-defined -- far from explicitly delimited -- domain of 'fair-use', or implicitly permitted by the copyright holder under implicit license, or..."