As a member of the 'Howling Fraternity' whose motto is 'standardise' - I'm all for it. (1)-(4) should be no problem. As Chris says there may be an issue with (5).(posted 9527 days ago)In reference to the source distribution. I've mentioned this before but noone made any comment. Would it be acceptable to MAMEDEV licence to 'delay' distribution of the source until after the tournament. In this way we aren't denying anyone the source but are only making them wait a couple of months for it. 'We are commenting the code to make it fit for distribution' is always a good excuse :-).
I had another read of the MAME licence agreement at http://mame.retrogames.com/. The below extraction is the relevant part:
Source Code Distribution
If you distribute the binary, you should also distribute the source code. If you can't do that, you must provide a pointer to a place where the source can be obtained.
How about providing a pointer to a currently nonexistent ftp site that we are setting up. The setup for this ftp site will be 3 months just after the tournament ceases (surprise).
Another way around it may be to issue the source code 'on request to a particular nonrobotic email address', then only check that email address and respond once every 3 months. I even have the cover email in mind
"Apologies for the late response to your request for source. I've been particularly busy lately. Here's the relevant (out of date) source you were after 3 months ago. Enjoy!"
Now the only problem is that some legitimate competitors with particularly slow machines are going to be excluded from the competitions (can't run games fast enough). This is regrettable but there's nothing else we can do. The words 'upgrade' seem to leap to mind for those people.
Tim