nplayers.txt for Debian

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi nomax,

I am part of the team that is working in bringing MAME to Debian and
Ubuntu, along with the best supporting tools and frontends.

While the most difficult part of the work (packaging, uploading and
getting MAME accepted in the official Debian archive) is done, we're now
trying to finish of the details.

I'd like to add nplayers.txt to a mame-data package, but for this we would
need it to have some kind of licence statement.

I've seen that history.dat is licenced under a Creative Commons 3.0
release. I suggest you do the same, and suggest the Attribution-ShareAlike
variant:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Once the file has such a licence statement in its header, we'll be happy
to distribute it in official Debian and Ubuntu packages!

Thanks,
Jordi
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[Jordi Mallach]

Hi!

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Nomax wrote:
> Thanks for thinking of NPlayers!
> Wow, it will be an honour to be in the repositories!

Well, you do the work, Debian distributes it. Sounds like a good deal! ;)

> Ok, I followed your suggestion and added the license blurb to
> nplayers.txt and nplayers.ini. Please find this new version
> attached.
> I'll add this license to the website and publicly available NPlayers
> files as of v0.142 which should be published next week (I guess).

Thank you very, very much!

> Please note that for technical reason, I can't add the license text to
> Multiplayer.ini because the file format doesn't seem to allow any kind
> of comment. But I think that's ok as long as the text appears in the
> txt file (by the way, this file is only used by MameUI and a few
> frontends).

That's ok. As long as some file in the distribution says the whole package
is covered with a certain licence, it's more than enough to express your
wish.

I'm focusing on gnome-video-arcade (already packaged for Debian), because
gmameui is *way* too buggy. gva does support nplayers, so all is well!

> Don't hesitate if you need anything else.

Thank you for your quick reply and action!

[Félix Arreola Rodríguez]

Long time ago I talk with Ludo about creating a "mame-extras" package.

Sadly, I don't have enough time to make it (and experience to make a deb
package)

Ludo suggested this:
> I would take:
> mameinfo.dat: WIP, descriptions, etc. http://mameinfo.mameworld.info/
> history.dat: Whole romset's history http://www.arcade-history.com/
> catver.ini: Romsets by categories http://www.progettoemma.net/?catlist
> highscore.dat: Hall of fame http://highscore.mameworld.info/
> story.dat: Other hiscores
http://www.arcadehits.net/mamescore/home.php?show=files
> cheat.zip: Who use cheat? http://cheat.retrogames.com/

> Also, but louder:
> in-game artworks: Bezels, backdrops, overlays, etc.
http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_ingame.html
> frontend artworks: Control Panels, cabinets and marquees
http://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork_frontend.html
> titles: Snapshots http://www.progettoemma.net/snaps/

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[Jordi Mallach]

Hi F�lix!

Thanks for the re-post. Interesting! I was, for now, focusing on the files
that are supported by gva, which apparently is history.dat, catver.ini and
nplayers.txt, but if the licence allows, we can obviously add anything.

I'll start working on something.