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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« on: August 22, 2010, 11:21:42 PM »
Yes, at least currently, Amiga Inc owns the ROMs and Cloanto and Hyperion have rights to distribute them.
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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2010, 06:38:23 PM »
The OS and Kickstart ROMs are available from Cloanto, who has a legal right to sell them.  Go out, buy Amiga Forever. it's a great product, and be happy with your legal ROMs and OS.
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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2010, 11:56:20 PM »
Copyright is 50 years, longer I think in the EU.  You are right, there is no more Amiga Intellectual property, but the copyright on the code continues.  What will happen when you post the roms to your website is that someone will complain to your ISP and your ISP not wanting to be involved in piracy will pull the plug on your site....

The ROMs are ridiculously easy to obtain if you want.  Just google them and torrent or rapidshare.  Having your website commit suicide over it makes no sense.
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Re: Legal issue of Kickstart ROMs
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2010, 02:00:23 AM »
We're talking two different things here.  Yes, ideas get built upon all the time, you should just develop a better kickstart and leave Amiga Inc's alone, that's exactly what happens all the time.  The have complete control of their software, but it doesn't mean you can't build your own and build it better.  Why do you think AROS was started?  It's Amiga like code that doesn't belong to Amiga Inc, nobody is controlling AROS.
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