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Capcom Home Arcade stick using FB Alpha Emulation
lantus:
http://www.capcomhomearcade.com/home
Any comment on this FBA Team? Seems like capcom are using FB Alpha - isnt that against your liscense agreement?
Haze:
http://capcomhomearcade.com/home
this is supposedly an official Capcom product.
It boasts on the page that they're using FB Alpha
FB Alpha is strictly non-commercial, since
a) it was non-commercial from the start
and
b) it incorporates a lot of code from MAME that was under a non-commercial license at the time (and code retains the license from the version on which it was based)
what is your take on this?
the only way this can be legal is if FBA was fully rolled back to a version before any code from MAME was included (so plain old Final Burn, not FBA) and the original author changed the license, and even then there might be problematic code depending on what cores it uses for things (pretty sure things like the fm core from the period are strict non-commercial)
it's been pointed out to me that Barry is claiming he licensed it out however
https://twitter.com/fbalpha/status/1118201306034974721
but I'm wondering how exactly, unless it's been rewritten basically from scratch, Barry alone is not in a legal position to make that call as there is work from a LOT of other people in there and clearly even some of your own team members are unaware of this.
lantus:
thats what i'd like to know. My gut tells me capcom just lifted the source
barbudreadmon:
How do you play eco fighters with 1 stick + buttons ? :eek:
It definitely looks like a breach of license to me :
--- Quote --- - You may not sell, lease, rent or otherwise seek to gain monetary profit from FB Alpha;
--- End quote ---
Good luck sueing them though. Well, at least they mention using FB Alpha, i'm pretty sure their competitor do the same without mentioning it...
Tatsuya79:
That's probably why they say they have wifi, to download fba after the purchase.
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