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Title: Are WorkBench3.0 disks still copyrighted ?
Post by: ptek on January 10, 2004, 12:50:46 PM

Are they still?  :-?

If they're not I will put them on my future webpage on the AMIGA section together with a tutorial for setting up WinUAE  :-)

Title: Re: Are WorkBench3.0 disks still copyrighted ?
Post by: Piru on January 10, 2004, 12:57:58 PM

@ptek

Copyright doesn't expire.

(Well, in some countries there are some ~75 year rules, but with computers these are quite irrelevant).

So unless if you have license to put the files online, don't.

Title: Re: Are WorkBench3.0 disks still copyrighted ?
Post by: KennyR on January 10, 2004, 02:00:36 PM

Yes, the copyright still holds.

Title: Re: Are WorkBench3.0 disks still copyrighted ?
Post by: JetRacer on January 10, 2004, 03:48:17 PM

IANAL

Copyright is irrelevant, licence status is what's interesting (and that haven't changed during the years).

Most people don't understand that software licenses are extentions of the copyright which makes the copyright holder automaticly grant/revoke f.ex. distribution rights.

Also, licenses DO NOT APPLY to copyright holder. There's nothing wrong with distributing the same software with different packages under multiple licenses. Some people think that Gnu GPL includes copyright holder (read: author), but that's not true.