AOL (Amiga On Linux)

[MarkTime]

Rogue wrote:
@Rodney
This might or might not work, depending on how someone hacks MOL to get the Cyberstorm PPC version working.

However, this does violate the AmigaOS 4 licence as much as it violates the OS X licence to do the same on MOL. From the Apple Software Licence, paragraph 2:
"This licence allows you to install and use the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled or Apple-licenced computer at a time".

@Rodney

MOL does not violate the Apple license, because most versions of PPC Linux are, indeed, running on an Apple-labled or Apple-licenced computer.  It is only a tiny fraction of PPC Linux that runs on non-Apple hardware.

If you ran Mac OS X on a pegasos or AmigaOne, then you would be breaking the licensing agreement.

But its important to put things back in perspective with all these piracy paranoids running around.  The vast majority of MOL use is completely legal.

And, if you used an improved version of MOL to run AOS 4, and your copy of AOS 4 that came with your AmigaONE ran in that emulation environment, that is perfectly legal.  And it does not break the DMCA...the DMCA clearly allows for breaking copy protection scheme, if the copy protection scheme is preventing the user from using the software for legitimate purposes.

As has been told to Hyperion repeatedly, they are only scaring the lawful users...the pirates will pirate...its the lawful users that are being scared from using the software for legitimate purposes, such as the one you outlined.

[MarkTime]

You are correct, I did confuse the old fair use doctrine with the new DMCA.

Nevertheless, if OS 4 ran unmodified on an AmigaONE, even if it is in the MOL environment, rather than directly booting off the harddrive, it is still not a violation of the DMCA in itself.

Hyperion would have to draft an EULA that specifically prohibits it....if they were only, say, as hateful as Apple Inc and stated it must run on Amiga branded or Amiga licenseed hardware, then
OS 4 could run within MOL on an AmigaONE as I stated.

But...you are right, I cited fair use, and fair use is no longer relevant.