MorphOS for AmigaONE

[AmigaHeretic]

no licence required

Licence or whatever you want to call it... I thought the problem was that Genesi doesn't want to Agree to the Dongle thing.  They want OS4 to run on their board, but won't aggree to put the dongle thing on their hardware.

OS4 would be good for both Hyperion and Genesi.  Both sides probably know this.  But if Genesis isn't going to Uphold the Copy Protection Scheme for OS4 then why should Hyperion port it?

What if Hyperion had used a Serial Number Scheme instead of a Dongle Scheme for their "Method of Copy Proctection" ??  Do you think that Genesi saying, " Here's a free Peg1 board PLEASE port a version of OS4 that DOESN'T require that Serial # so we can distribute it with our hardware"  is any different then asking for a Dongle Free Version?

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

@JoannaK

Only way I can see it to happen would be Eyetech to license Mos to AmigaOnes and pay to Genesi for it.

License says "giving rights to." If Eyetech is "getting a license to MOS" then that means that Eyetech is getting the source code *and* the rights to that source code.   Eyetech is not porting any OS's to the A1, hence no license is needed for these OS's. It is up to the owners of these OS's to decide if they want their software on the A1 platform or not. It's not up to Eyetech to decide that for them. If Genesi chooses to not port their OS to the A1, it is their decision. No license from Eyetech can change that.

AmigaGuy