Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!leek Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Date: Friday, 14 Jun 1991 13:38:03 EDT From: Message-ID: <91165.133803LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Source to OS (Was Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Ser Distribution: world References: <3034@public.BTR.COM> In article , dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) says: > > The source should NOT be made available. The point is moot anyway since > Commodore isn't about to release it anyway :-) > Agreed. > By the way, I do not believe it is legal for Markus to disassemble Exec > and publish the results, there are several clauses relating to this in > Commodore's copyright statement. > He didn't exactly disassembled exec and give it away to everybody. What he did was to distribute the comments portion of the disassembly. You run the disassembler on your machine and there is a second program that recombines them to give you the commented dissembled code. The programs only works with 1.2 exec library by the way and it was on fred fish disk for a long while. I am not a lawyer so I can't tell you whether or not this is legal. I just want to clarify things a little bit. Now if dissambling ROM is illegal then the person running it also is breaking the law. > -Matt >-- > > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US > 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon > Berkeley, Ca. 94708 > USA > K. C. Lee "2.0 is not the question. The question is WHEN ?" -me. :) Be patient !!