Licensing Kickstart ROMs for Raspberry Pi

[desiv]

Do you believe they own the copyright, or do they just have a license? Their website implies the latter, but some of their efforts to actually enforce the copyright imply the former..

They are definitely just a licensee...
That said, they might be your best contact to either:
a:  Find out who the owner is.  They should know who they bought it from.
b:  Resell it.  It's possible, as they are licensed for the ROM for emulation purposes, that they might be able to work with you on a license distribution.

Good luck, and thanx for shaking up the world a bit.. ;-)

desiv

[desiv]

Actually, they are offering various editions of Amiga Forever.

Yeah, I would think Cloanto "could" be fairly creative with the distribution.

It's too bad they don't have a "FULL" version of Amiga Forever that runs on Linux (based on E-UAE or ?).
If so, as that's what is most likely to power any Amiga on the Pi, they'd be more likely to work out a deal...

I can even see something that's basically just the kickstarts with UAE and maybe an AD of some kind in the launcher encouraging people to look at their more feature complete product.

But that's less likely to be successful if you telling people who are running a Linux based solution on a box that won't run Windows to "upgrade" to the Windows version.. ;-)

If they are looking at doing something VERY specific tho, such as including an version of UAE that is configured to only run Elite, and that maybe has an ad for AmigaForever..  That might be considered a win-win...

(Would be nicer if there was a full Amiga Forever for UAE tho, and I run and love Amiga Forever..  It's a great wrapper around a great piece of software.  Just that Pi won't run it..)

desiv