Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) From: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com> To: ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are the Commodore ROMs distributed with the VICE in the public domain? (fwd) Message-ID: <199802081539.JAA02733@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net>
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>From dcarmich Sun Feb 8 09:36:51 1998
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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:47:35 +0100
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From: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@comm2000.it>
To: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com>
Subject: Re: Are the Commodore ROMs distributed with the VICE in the public domain?
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Hello!
>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com> writes:
Douglas> Are the Commodore ROMs distributed with the VICE in the
Douglas> public domain? (I've made a port of the VICE for FreeBSD
Douglas> and the FreeBSD authors want to know if they can put the
Douglas> port with the ROMs on the CD-ROM which they sell for
Douglas> profit).
No, they are not "officially" in the public domain. The first time
they were distributed with an emulator (PC64), the author asked
Commodore (or whoever held the right at those times) for the
permission and received no answer. So, all the emulator users assume
they can be re-distributed freely.
So basically the exact copyright status is unknown. We have had a
similiar problem with the Debian distribution, and we the `.deb'
archive is now shipped without any ROMs. I guess the FreeBSD people
should do the same.
Bye!
Ettore.
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