RE: A86: ROM Images
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RE: A86: ROM Images
Nobody said distributing the ROM for programming purposes was legal. They
said making a copy of your own ROM for the purposes of programming is legal.
Dave
At 08:15 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
>> >Uh, WRONG! Distributing the ROM cannot be legal under any circumstances.
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>> You can't just make a statement like this and leave us hanging. Explain
>> these "circumstances" that you speak of. I specified the type of research
>> that all of us programmers are doing, which makes the ROM legal to have.
>> Distributing the ROM is therefore legal since everyone must be able to
>> prove that the research that the programmers did is really true. So,
>> either end of the use of the ROM is legal under copyright law. Now, tell
>> me YOUR defense.
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>So distributing Quake, for instance, is also legal if you're researching
>about 3D game engines...?
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