Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: GCC Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 02:44:46 GMT References: <9101100202.AA139209@vttcf.cc.vt.edu> <17369@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jan11.220207.5131@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991Jan12.214301.10882@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 39 In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >In article <1991Jan12.214301.10882@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >>In article <1991Jan11.220207.5131@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> pepers@enme3.UUCP (Brad Pepers) writes: >>> >>>The amiga.lib file should come with the PDC distribution. I think its >>>their own reverse engineered AMIGA.LIB that C= sends out. I also had >> amiga.lib C is copyright CBM. Manx and SAS both have to >>pay Commodore for the right to distribute it and the Amiga >>include files. > >The *generation* of the PDC Amiga.lib is OK. The distribution of the >result publicly is not necessarily OK (unless they check that the >receiver also is the owner of an Amiga Extras disk), as it clearly is >a derived work of the AmigaBasic .fd files as found on every Extras >disk. The distribution of a program that creates an amiga.lib from the >same files is perfectly legit, though. > Of couse, I'm no lawyer. If it is generated from scratch from the FD files, with other incidental routines written by the PDC people, then it is publically distributable. If it is the commodore-supplied amiga.lib, then it is not. MANX, SAS, Myself (DICE), and a few other people have licensed the amiga includes and amiga.lib from Commodore but we cannot distribute them publically either, only as part of a product. >> -- Ethan > >-- Leonard -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA