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Offline Amiga_Nut

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Re: Distribution Licence For Workbench...
« on: May 04, 2011, 12:42:14 PM »
Quote from: AmigaHeretic;635136
@Franko

Someone pointed out in another thread that Petro gave Amiga Workbench 3.0 free to the community along time ago.


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 Quote from Amiga Format CD #51: AFCD51/+System+/Tools/Workbench/Workbench 3.x/AF_Readme

 Here are the DMS archives for the complete Workbench 3.0, in case you haven't
 got an install disk, or you corrupt your originals. We can't put later versions
 on because we'd need a licence to do so, but Petro Tyschtschenko has given us
 permission to include this version of AmigaOS on all AFCDs from now on.

 To extract the files, simply have a stack of six disks at the ready for
 insertion into df0: (or whichever drive you've set up in AFCDPrefs) and then
 double click on the DMS archive icons.
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 Files on Amiga Format CD #51: AFCD51/+System+/Tools/Workbench/Workbench 3.x/

 Install.dms
 Workbench.dms
 Locale.dms
 Fonts.dms
 Extras.dms
 Storage.dms
 OS3.1_BoingBag1.lzx
 AF_Readme



Petro gave Future Publishing a licence to include them on their Amiga Format cover CDs, the AF CDs are copyrighted and the permission does not extend to anyone other than Future Publishing. This does not make WB 3.0 freeware/abandonware.
 

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Re: Distribution Licence For Workbench...
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 12:57:59 PM »
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And Cloanto have every right and legal responsibly to protect the AmigaOS IP... They seem to be very fair with their approach.

@Franko to be Frank with you (excuse the pun), the best idea is to just support the AROS68k project. It already has compatibility with AmigaOS 1.3 through to 3.1, and is getting better everyday... Why not funnel those vast tax fiddled funds you boast about, into some more bounties to help the developers optimise and improve it? :)

It's not their IP at all, some low life crook let them have the Kickstart ROMs and WB disk images to put on their overpriced compilations with the FREE WinUAE emulator.

Having 27 year old technology not made freely distributed and Cloanto pimping their pathetic overpriced is not good for the retro community.

And Tony better fix the damage he has done to the Amiga community by letting those Cloanto use his WinUAE and get a Kickstart replacement rom that will run ALL OCS/ECS/AGA games ASAP so we can finally shove those Amiga Rip-off CD/DVDs and just use WinUAE and the ADFs without interference from Cloanto once and for all.

The purpose is to keep the memory of Amiga alive FOR FREE and it is NOT to line the pockets of idiot talentless coders at Cloanto. Even their paint package at the time was pure and a rip-off of Dpaint. Pure SCUM!
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