Amiga OS Licensing?

[dammy]

I didn't really think it was an issue, since Amiga, and certainly Commodore, are out of business. I just want to make sure I am in compliance and I didn't see anything in the manuals that came with the upgrade kit concerning licenses.

Amiga Inc (and Amino) are in business and AFAIK, still receiving royalty checks from Cloanto for their sale of WB/kickstart in their Amiga Forever ISOs.  So it is commercially available and should be used as legal methods of gaining copies of WB/kickstarts.

In General with Amiga software, what is the licensing standard? Or does that even matter anymore? Considering many of those companies are also out of business...

Ignore these pirates and take the high road.  It's doesn't cost much to buy Amiga Forever and that gives you moral and legal protection of purchasing a license.  Cloanto deserves respect and our patronage, unlike Hyperion.

Dammy

[dammy]

I think that Hyperion deserves respect for making OS4. Why so much hostility?

Evert (and plus Ben before he bailed) botched a six month port into this fiasco and then ignore two contracts (One with Amiga Inc and Eyetech that only allow OS4 sales on Amigas plus Evert sold OS4 to Itec). Cloanto has honored their contract and has provided a great product.  Evert has done what again?  Without Amiga Inc's public blessing, this appears that Evert is attempting to make every possible single dollar, even though it clearly violates his contract with AI and Eyetech not to mention violation of other IP belonging to Amiga Inc.  Shouldn't piracy of IP be publicaly condemned?

The Frieden brothers and his partners have done an impressive job. You may argue saying that it took them too much time, that you don't like the platform and a long excuse list, but all I see is that you envy the level of usefulness of OS4 (compared to AROS)

That is because you ASSume too much. I've given up on AROS, I do not see a significant future for AROS.  That is one of many reasons I gave TeamAROS to Power2People.  I have plenty of my own axes to grind with Amiga Inc, you probably have read enough of my condemnation of AI over the years to know this to be true.  Based on the contract and the laws, I have to support AI over Evert. I hope your not confusing yourself by combining Evert with his subcontractors, like the Frieden brothers, to equal Hyperion?  

All I've been asking is where is Amiga Inc's approval for contract variation to allow OS4 to be sold on a non-Amiga?  Where is it?

Dammy