On Apr 22, 14:25, Julian Richardson wrote:
> >> There is the problem of copyrights and permission. Not as easy as you'd
> >> think as the copyright live past the companies demise so you have to
> >> track where or who still holds it.
>
> I think roms/disks for some machines are no longer copyrighted though,
> no? (or at least freely distributable) - I think Acron's BBC machines
> fall under this category.
That's VERY manufacturer-specific, and doesn't apply to Acorn code. As Allison
pointed out, you need some dispensation, either individually or to the public
at large.
> There seemed to be a lot of people a few years
> back who took to putting rom/disk images up on public sites until
> somebody complained - presumably there's been a crackdown on that sort
> of thing recently though...
Well, Motorola had a go at somebody a year or two ago, as I recall, and ISTR
that ended after a bit of a row with the website in question being closed.
OTOH, there's a site with old Sun boot roms and a note to the effect that if
anyone from Sun objects, the site will remove them immediately on official
request.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed Apr 22 1998 - 10:03:54 BST