clrmame, clrmame For Windows & clrmamepro were written by
Roman Scherzer in 1997 - 2011. All rights reserved.
This program is FREEWARE !
This means that you are allowed to copy this program as long as you provide the full archive. It's not allowed to modify the archive or the program in any way. This includes: Renaming, recompiling, disassembling ! clrmamepro will do reading and writing operations on your harddisk. I'm not responsible for any kind of data loss which may be caused by clrmamepro. You use this program on your very own risk !
You're not allowed to use clrmamepro for managing filesets and files which you don't legally own. This also includes building up collections of such files. Don't distribute clrmamepro with any extra files, especially not with ROM images! If you don't accept this, remove clrmamepro from your system! You accept the upper statements by using this program. Any missuse of clrmamepro on data will be reported to the trademark/copyright holders of the files and you may have to be face legal actions taken against you.
Any similarities of the clrmamepro software in name, look or usage to other existing programs is purely coincidental.
clrmamepro uses M. Adler's crc32 & inflate routine which is part of
the freely available zlib library.
For md5 calculation Mordechai T. Abzug's implementation is used.
For
sha1 Dominik Reichl's implementation is used. These routines are public domain.
The currently used buttonbar is (C) by Alex Schuetz.
The currently used animation is (C) by Nicole Schmitz. For zipsupport
clrmamepro uses the Tadeusz Dracz's ZipArchive C++ classes.
The sources are freely
available from http://software.artpol.com.pl/
on the Internet.
The unrar.dll library is freeware. This means:
1. All copyrights to RAR and the unrar.dll are exclusively owned by the author -
Alexander Roshal.
2. The unrar.dll library may be used in any software to handle RAR archives
without limitations free of charge.
3. THE RAR ARCHIVER AND THE UNRAR.DLL LIBRARY ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY
OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE. Thank you for your
interest in RAR and unrar.dll. Alexander L. Roshal
clrmamepro uses the unmodified freely available LZMA SDK package which can be downloaded from http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html to support 7z files.
LZMA SDK is available under any of the following licenses:
1. GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL)
2. Common Public License (CPL)
3. Simplified license for unmodified code (read SPECIAL EXCEPTION)
4. Proprietary license
It means that you can select one of these four options and follow rules of that
license.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits
you to statically or dynamically link your code (or bind by name) to the files
from LZMA SDK without subjecting your linked code to the terms of the CPL or GNU
LGPL. Any modifications or additions to files from LZMA SDK, however, are
subject to the GNU LGPL or CPL terms.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION allows you to use LZMA SDK in applications with closed code,
while you keep LZMA SDK code unmodified.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION #2: Igor Pavlov, as the author of this code, expressly permits
you to use LZMA SDK 4.43 under the same terms and conditions contained in the
License Agreement you have for any previous version of LZMA SDK developed by
Igor Pavlov.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION #2 allows owners of proprietary licenses to use latest version
of LZMA SDK as update for previous versions.
GNU LGPL and CPL are pretty similar and both these licenses are classified as
free software licenses at http://www.gnu.org/
and OSI-approved at
http://www.opensource.org/.
LZMA SDK also can be available under a proprietary license which can include:
1. Right to modify code from LZMA SDK without subjecting modified code to the
terms of the CPL or GNU LGPL
2. Technical support for LZMA SDK via email
To request such proprietary license or any additional consultations, send email
message from page for support: Send message to LZMA developer
Source code of 7-Zip is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL. You can
download source code of 7-Zip at 7-Zip's Source Forge Page
If you want to contact me, you can do it via:
Don't send me any binaries ! Don't ask me for any files, links to files until I tell you to do so! Such e-mails will be ignored !
You are welcome with ideas, criticism and your opinions.
clrmamepro updates can be found on my homepage:
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro
You can also use clrmamepro's auto-update feature. It's available in the
About dialog.