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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 12, 2006, 05:24:37 PM

Title: AROS?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 12, 2006, 05:24:37 PM

By accident I found this page:
AROS-Benelux (http://www.aros-benelux.com/)
What about copyrights of the name of the "Amiga Research Operating System"?

Title: Re: AROS?
Post by: Thomas on April 12, 2006, 05:36:37 PM

It is not even clear if the "Amiga Research Operating System" is legal, so they better shouldn't dare to claim copyright issues against commercial companies.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: AROS?
Post by: Fats on April 12, 2006, 07:14:43 PM

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Thomas wrote:

It is not even clear if the "Amiga Research Operating System" is legal, so they better shouldn't dare to claim copyright issues against commercial companies.

Would you suggest I should not consider my copyright for the code I have written for AROS ?
Can you be more specific about what is possible wrong with AROS, if not please don't try to spread FUD. We have always been very prudent concerning licensing.
The only possible problem I can see is the use of the Amiga trademark. By law you have to actively enforce trademarks and Amiga Inc. is already so long aware of the name that the time has passed that they can make problems.

greets,
Staf.

Title: Re: AROS?
Post by: Fransexy_ on April 12, 2006, 07:16:46 PM

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Thomas wrote:

It is not even clear if the "Amiga Research Operating System" is legal, so they better shouldn't dare to claim copyright issues against commercial companies.

Bye,
Thomas

Why? The name perhaps could be ilegal, but the OS itself? is linux ilegal in relation to unix?

Title: Re: AROS?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 12, 2006, 10:04:17 PM

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Fats wrote:
The only possible problem I can see is the use of the Amiga trademark. By law you have to actively enforce trademarks and Amiga Inc. is already so long aware of the name that the time has passed that they can make problems.

Ehm, considering the recent claim of the ownership of the MP3 codec by the Frauenhofer institute (app. 10 years after it was released) and them wanting to get a part of the profit MP3 player manufacturers make, I wouldn't be too confident about that.

Title: Re: AROS?
Post by: Fats on April 13, 2006, 08:14:25 PM

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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Ehm, considering the recent claim of the ownership of the MP3 codec by the Frauenhofer institute (app. 10 years after it was released) and them wanting to get a part of the profit MP3 player manufacturers make, I wouldn't be too confident about that.

This is about code covered by a patent not about a trademark. These are two different things.
We did look at the patents of Amiga but the only one relevant was the menus showing at the top of the screen so this was not compiled in by default. E.g. use it at your own risk.
If I'm not mistaken this patent has in the mean time expired.

greets,
Staf.