Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)
Just because distributing the ROM image is illegal, doesn't mean
researching your OWN ROM image is also illegal. You can do anything to
your own copy of the ROM as long as you don't give a copy of your ROM to
anyone else.
Also, your argument excludes the TI-73, TI-80, TI-81, and TI-92
calculators.
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> >ti did not support assembly on the ti-82, so it was NOT meant to be
> >programmed, which voids all uses of "programming research" in investigating
> >the rom of the ti-82. in contrast, ti supported assembly on the ti-86, so it
> >was meant to be programmed, justifying the "programming research" claim.
>
> So, according to the paragraph that you have just written, you are fully
> supporting everything that I have said. Since "programming research" is
> void for the investigation of the 82 ROM image, then every last assembly
> shell, game, and program must be deleted from the TI-82 directories at
> ticalc.org (and other major sites) or they are in serious legal trouble
> since everything can be linked to "programming research" on the 82 ROM.
> Yet, you also give the EXCEPTION that it is perfectly legal to distribute
> the 86 ROM image since TI supported assembly under the legal umbrella of
> "programming research." So, I'm just making sure that you know that you
> are _FOR_ 86 ROM image distribution and _AGAINST_ 82 ROM distribution
> because of one minor thing: internal assembly support. You are saying
> therefore that it is perfectly legal to distribute any TI ROM image that
> has internal assembly support. This excludes the TI-85 and TI-82
> calculators only.
>
>
> Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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