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Re: Implications of Amiga OS 3.1 source code leak
« on: December 30, 2015, 02:23:11 AM »
What it means is that the copyright owner Amiga Inc, or the sole license owner Cloanto can sue anyone who tries to use the code in a commercial venture or sue a website owner who provides access to the code or modified version of the code. It's a matter of civil not criminal law.

It muddies the water for AROS a bit in that if someone contributing to AROS views the code and then uses what s/he sees to enhance AROS, it could open AROS up to be sued by either Cloanto or Amiga Inc.

Copyright in Berne Convention countries last 50 years, this has been enhanced in the EU to 70 years and I believe in the US to 90 years...