Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights

[kamelito]

I read through the news, but I'm not quite clear about the *real* contents of the news and the difference between what you imply and what they really own. From the IPs that are listed for Cloanto, I believe they own the RKRMs, and the workbench/kickstart disk *binaries*. Whether they have any rights on the sources still seems to be unclear to me, at least the news article does not claim this, and the table there that lists their IPs neither does say a word about sources.

Thus, I don't quite see the news behind this news. It was clear from the beginning that Cloanto had a right to sell the workbench disks and kickstart ROM images. That's old news. What would be "new news" is whether they have any rights on the sources. That's the only part I would be happy to learn.

Amiga journalists should answer that, but they tend to prefer to just post info without digging, that's why so many Amigans speculate...

Kamelito

[kamelito]

Are you kidding me?

Question : Hello Michele, I heard Cloanto own the right to the AmigaOS source code up to 1993 is that true?

Possible answers:
Answer1 : No
Answer2 : Cloanto made me sign an NDA so I can't tell you but I know.
Answer3 : Yes we own the rights since 2012.
Answer4 : Joker, next question.
Answer5 : If I tell you I'll have to kill you
etc.

So basically you can have an answer.

Kamelito
PS I did some interview in the past too mostly for AmigaNews (the french paper magazine not the site)