RE: A86: ROM Images
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RE: A86: ROM Images
Thomas Hruska said it was legal. :)
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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Dave VanEe wrote:
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> 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.
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> Dave
>
> At 08:15 AM 11/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >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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