Hello Trodas
On 15-Aug-01, you wrote:
> MorphOS is maybe nice, but mainly illegal into the pure beginning. Lets see
> Hyperion statement about it.
There is nothing illegal about MorphOS - European law states that the
reverse engineering of software (what little reverse engineering is needed)
is perfectly okay if it aids interoperability.
Certainly all those PPC native modules aid interoperability
The *ONLY* time MorphOS would be illegal is if it shipped with ACTUAL
SYSTEM SOFTWARE - direct copies from an OS3.9 CD, or a non-licensed
OS3.1 ROM image. If writing clones and patching of OS software is illegal,
then we wouldn't have things like Statram, muFS, or pretty much any
of the things included in OS3.5 and 3.9 since of course all the authors
would have been in jail.
If this were so, writing an Exec device would be illegal, so phase5, Elbox,
Matay, DCE, every shareware and freeware author about (including
Olli) would be peddling illegal software.
WarpOS would have been illegal from Amiga's standpoint since it patches
OS functions with PPC-safe replacements. Aaron Digulla would also
probably have been executed by now :)
Amithlon would also be quite, quite illegal if only it didn't have official
status from "Amiga Inc."
Does MorphOS ship with an OS3.1 ROM image? No. It requires you
already have an unmodified Amiga ROM in *hardware*. It is not
illegal for system software to require a certain ROM revision (and
if it was, OS3.5 and OS3.9 would be illegal too)
Don't go around saying things are against the law when they patently
are not. Just because Ben Yoris is a lawyer doesn't mean he knows
what he is on about, and in any case he's biased.
Thanks
--
Matt
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