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Offline aracnetTopic starter

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How Legal is MorphOS?
« on: June 27, 2010, 07:33:06 AM »
I really want to understand how legal is morhos? I mean as i know they do not have any licence from Amiga Inc. but their software is said that completable with Amiga OS 3.x series without any kickrom. How it is possible?
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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 10:58:41 AM »
Quote from: Krashan;567491
It is possible, because cloning API of an operating system, based on publicly available documentation, is perfectly legal.


So they are some documentations which says how AmigaOS 3.x behave in which situations? Do we have chance to find them are there opensource?

Or Morphos team make reverse-engineering to get behaviors of AmigaOS 3.x?

Also if it is in API level completable why AROS can not do same as morphos even it needs UAE in some how?

Quote from: bbond007;567488
But seriously, at this point, how can it be any less "legal" than AmigaOS?


After agreement wit Amiga Inc. and Hyperion I think there is no problem for now for AmigaOS 4.x serries.
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Re: How Legal is MorphOS?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 02:15:46 PM »
Quote from: Krashan;567524
The complete AmigaOS 3 documentation has been officially released on "Amiga Developer CD". While it was not free of charge, it was publicly available and anyone (including me for example) could buy one.


From where ? Who owns it?
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