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From: kentsu@microsoft.UUCP (Kent SULLIVAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: The Law,Chips,Code......A question
Message-ID: <72502@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 18:13:10 GMT
References: <12031@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991May13.104535.42722@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1991May13.230536.3536@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1991May16.210459.11425@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991May16.210459.11425@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:

>     If your ROM modifications are really interesting, why don't you ask
>Commodore for a licence to redistribute them to legitimate owners of
>original Commodore ROM's?  I'm sure that Commodore wouldn't ask for much
>of a royalty, if any.  The 1571 is, after all, out of production.

I think this is what CMD did... They have a legal agreement with CBM to produce
their ROMs.  I know for sure they asked permission to distribute the 
unmodified ROMs (what you get when you flip JiffyDOS OFF) and I think they
asked permission to distribute the CBM code that remained unmodified in
their own ROM.

Kent Sullivan
Microsoft Corporation

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