My own thought is Mikeymike is correct in that KMOS are holding the rights to the ROMs in case they might make some money some day. I doubt them or Cloanto are making much from them currently and as time rolls on their chances of making any real money diminish.
So yes I think the 68K versions of Amiga OS (3.1 and before at least) should be released to public domain.
I can understand why they would not want to open source it though as MOS might benefit from looking at the code.
Nothing to do with freeloading BTW, it's not commercially useful anymore so why keep it?
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Now, here's a question:
Who owns the rights to AOS 3.2?
There are only 2 copies in existence I know of but I've simply no idea who owns the copyrights.
