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Steve Nickolas <address@hidden> 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.


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