From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 8 07:40:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04042 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 07:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dcarmich.pr.mcs.net (dcarmich.pr.mcs.net [204.95.63.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04034; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 07:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcarmich@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net) Received: (from dcarmich@localhost) by dcarmich.pr.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02733; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dcarmich) From: Douglas Carmichael Message-Id: <199802081539.JAA02733@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Subject: Re: Are the Commodore ROMs distributed with the VICE in the public domain? (fwd) To: ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:39:45 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Forwarded message from Ettore Perazzoli ----- >From dcarmich Sun Feb 8 09:36:51 1998 Received: from miro.comm2000.it (root@miro.comm2000.it [194.133.0.7]) by Mailbox.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id IAA28005 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:43:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from grezzume.comm2000.it (ettore@mi-max1-l87.comm2000.it [194.133.156.87]) by miro.comm2000.it (8.8.8/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA14706 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:44:40 GMT Received: (from ettore@localhost) by grezzume.comm2000.it (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA00314; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:47:35 +0100 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:47:35 +0100 Message-Id: <199802081447.PAA00314@grezzume.comm2000.it> From: Ettore Perazzoli To: Douglas Carmichael Subject: Re: Are the Commodore ROMs distributed with the VICE in the public domain? In-Reply-To: <199802080025.SAA00302@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> References: <199802080025.SAA00302@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.39 under 19.15p5 XEmacs Lucid X-UIDL: 3726e68fd62fe20c022d86e5558f40eb Hello! >>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Carmichael 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. ----- End of forwarded message from Ettore Perazzoli ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message