RE: A86: ROM Images
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RE: A86: ROM Images
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> >Uh, WRONG! Distributing the ROM cannot be legal under any circumstances.
>
> 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.
So distributing Quake, for instance, is also legal if you're researching
about 3D game engines...?
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