I will agree with Cicca - there shouldn't be a distribution of the source code in this case. If there was... welcome back cheating... and that's a nono.(posted 9538 days ago)Regardless, this will be quite a controversy... the groups will probably be literal(those who stick to the license) vs. logical(those who think it should be bent for this case.) It is possible that this could expand beyond the MARP.
As for this tournament - when complete testing has been done, I will permit TG MAME 35 FINAL(not the official MAME DOS 35 FINAL, or WIN 35 FINAL) to be in the tournament.(I haven't allowed TG MAME yet... it's still just any MAME 34 FINAL version)
I alluded to not WIN 35 FINAL - the reason that is is because people can record using the DOS version of MAME 35 FINAL, and possibly play it back on WIN 35 FINAL.
Now what I'm hoping is that somebody can come up with a TG MAME32 .35 FINAL - then after the testing is done on that, then I can put that version into the tournament. It would certainly make at least 5 people who want to play in the tournament happy.