Is Eyetech pirating the A1200 Magic Pack software?

[FarQuad]

Here's a question for you.

Yesterday I was reading John's Suite 101 review of the AmigaOne XE when something caught my eye..

From John's article:

Eyetech supply the latest PowerPC build of UAE along with a licensed 3.1 ROM, AmigaOS 3.1 and a selection of pre-installed software including Scala, Wordworth and Photogenics taken from the old A1200 Magic Packs.

Here's where the problem comes in.  Neither Eyetech, Hyperion, nor Amiga Inc themselves are licensed to distribute the Magic Pack Software (and I am sure they are not licensed to distribute Scala, Wordworth, or Photogenics) from the Amiga 1200 Magic Pack.

I have always been under the impression that the Amiga 1200 Magic pack license (according to various sources) was software licensed for distribution with the SPECIFIC AMIGA 1200 packs themselves.

Maybe someone should contact Scala, Paul Nolan (Photogenics) and the Wordworth people about the fact that their software is being distributed without their knowledge?  I'm sure they'd welcome a new license, or the money from the distribution.

// FarQ

[FarQuad]

But they aren't selling the Magic Pack (which came on floppies).  They are distributing the software on a CD, which means that they have reconfigured it and are distributing it as part of the AmigaOne package, NOT as a Magic Pack.  Not sure they have a legal right to do that.

Wayne, please let us know what you find out.