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Title: Workbench distribution
Post by: balrogsoft on September 21, 2009, 11:56:02 AM
Hi.

I found that Workbench 1.3, 2.1, 3.0 is available on Ten on Ten CD 4 on back2roots(http://team.back2roots.org/CDs/Demos/), as i know Workbench is still copyrighted, and back2roots is a legal site for Amiga downloads. So basically, it should be legal made a custom version of Workbench using these WB versions of Ten on Ten to distribute free?
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: mongo on September 21, 2009, 01:39:01 PM
No.
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: mikeymike on September 21, 2009, 02:06:30 PM
@ mongo

Agreed.  I think Amiga Inc would be setting the lawyer-hounds on BTTR if they had any money.
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: Karlos on September 21, 2009, 02:18:50 PM
As far as I know, no component of any version AmigaOS (at least m68k version, not sure what the current deal with 4.x is) may be redistributed without an appropriate permission from AInc.
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: Thomas on September 21, 2009, 02:25:26 PM
Quote from: balrogsoft;523568
So basically, it should be legal made a custom version of Workbench using these WB versions of Ten on Ten to distribute free?


Definitely not. BTTR asked for permission to distribute for every single package on their site. This is an exclusive permission for BTTR, it does not apply to anyone else. You are allowed to download the packages for free from their site, but you are not allowed to upload them anywhere else. Removing parts of a package and distributing the rest is an even worse violation of the rights.
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: persia on September 21, 2009, 03:53:47 PM
Putting aside the rather humourous connotation of the name "Back to the roots" here in Australia, I would say they are basically kicking the copse of Amiga Inc to see if there is any life left. If Amiga Inc doesn't respond it means we are all safe to do as we please, since the copyright owner is no more...
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: balrogsoft on September 21, 2009, 07:03:32 PM
Quote from: Thomas;523579
Definitely not. BTTR asked for permission to distribute for every single package on their site. This is an exclusive permission for BTTR, it does not apply to anyone else. You are allowed to download the packages for free from their site, but you are not allowed to upload them anywhere else. Removing parts of a package and distributing the rest is an even worse violation of the rights.


Ok, i'm understand that, but i think that back2roots didn't ask permission to Amiga Inc, only  to Ten on Ten CD's makers, the questions is, then Ten on Ten CD makers has permision to distribute workbench? I think that it is really a messy situation.
Title: Re: Workbench distribution
Post by: scuzzb494 on September 21, 2009, 07:36:23 PM
First... No
Second... Almathera were making bootable disks for the CD32 at the time and these CD's being part of a set requires CD No.1 to be booted once before this CD will boot up to workbench. Part of a collection and no doubt approved by Commodore. Almathera shipped disks with the CDTV also.
Third... The spirit of the collection is to provide a customised Workbench for a specific purpose. Take this out of it's context and you are in deep 'doo doo', trust me.
Fourth... GoTo First Press Enter

scuzz
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