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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: The Law,Chips,Code......A question
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Date: 15 May 91 18:41:45 GMT
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grx0644@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:

>I have been dabbling with the 1571 roms, trying out different mods to the roms
>(using eproms and such). I am wondering if I can sell my hypothetical UPgrade,
>would I be breaking the copy right laws since some of the code in the chip was
>not written by me???  I am asking as I have binary images of the newest 1571
>upgrades and have installed them into my drive. If I can figure out some useful
>changes, would I be in violation of copy right laws by selling a new chip. Any
>legal amateures out there want to take a crack at this one??  (BTW: I bought
>the newest 1571 upgrade directly from commodore, so it ain't pirated!!) :)

I think the safest thing you can do is to outline the modifications which
are needed to do your "upgrade", or of some device which will upgrade the
ROMs given that the user supply the originals.  You can't sell the
original code.  That would be bad.

I base this argument on the story about MACOS, which contained a large
amount of ACOS code.  Distribution was ordered halted by the owner of
ACOS.  If it was distributed as an upgrade kit, it probably would have
survived.

>|Anthony Paul Schliesser 			GRX0644@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU|
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