====== MESS License ======

Because MESS is based on MAME and shares many components with it, it also uses the MAME™ Distribution License. The offical and current version of this license can always be found on [[http://mamedev.org/legal.html|MAMEDev]] and is also mirrored on this page.

The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the [[http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0|GNU General Public License, version 2]] or later (GPL-2.0+), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. A great majority of files (over 90% including core files) are under the [[http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause|BSD-3-Clause License]] and we would encourage new contributors to distribute files under this license.

Please note that MAME is a registered trademark of Nicola Salmoria, and permission is required to use the "MAME" name, logo, or wordmark.
===== MAME® Distribution License =====


		Copyright (C) 1997-2016  MAMEDev and contributors
		
		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
		it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
		the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
		(at your option) any later version.
		
		This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
		but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
		MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
		GNU General Public License for more details.
		
		You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
		with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
		51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.


Please see [[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/LICENSE.md|LICENSE.md]] for further details.