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The purpose of this document is to state the names of WINUI authors, disclaimers, and licence conditions.

WINUI is a set of codes which add a 'front-end' facility to the MAME emulator (and certain derivatives).
It is not maintained or supported by MAMEdev, but by the efforts of dedicated individuals.
The files are normally found in the src/osd/winui folder(s) of a source package.

WINUI was originally written around 1997, and has had contributions from many authors, both known and unknown.
Due to the lack of historical records, it is unknown who exactly contributed what.

Here is the list of known authors, and the known licence for them:

Michael Soderstrom                BSD-3-Clause
Christopher Kirmse                BSD-3-Clause
MSH (Mike Haaland)                BSD-3-Clause
Captain Pugwash                   BSD-3-Clause
Jeff Miller                       BSD-3-Clause
Robbbert                          GPL_2.0
etabeta (Fabio Priuli)            BSD-3-Clause
Bletch (Nathan Woods)             BSD-3-Clause
Mamesick                          BSD-3-Clause


Copyright exists from 1997 to the present day, and beyond. The project is hereby covered by the GPL_2.0



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Written by Robbbert on 2015-06-03.
Updated on 2024-05-18.

Please read the COPYING file as well.
