[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Frodon on 29-Apr-2002 14:47 GMT | Hello,
Just a little complement to what i've said.
The MorphOS A/Box, which i repeat is the part of MorphOS that allow MorphOS to run AmigaOS softwares, don't infringe IPs in its actual form. I'll explain that:
Actual beta version of MorphOS run on classic Amigas with BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC. AmigaOS 3.x run also on this platform.
That's why that even if the MorphOS Team have used some practices that could be considered as infringing the Amiga Inc's IPs if it run on different hardware platform than AMigaOS, are anyway legal because it run on the same hardware.
As stated by Ben Hermans, lawyer, it's legal to use decompilation without the approval of the original author if the software developped using the decompilated elements run on the same hardware platform and if its for interoperability reasons. It's the law.
So even if MorphOS have used decompiled parts of AmigaOS 3.x, as it runs on the same hardware, it's legal and can't be considered to be Amiga Inc's IPs infringement.
That's why the current version of MorphOS available for current Amigas doesn't infringe Amiga Inc's IPs and so can read the ROMs chip directly. It's legal as it does not infringe the Amiga Inc's IPs. So even if they have "stolen" some parts of AmigaOS 3.x by decompiling it, it's legal because it runs on the same hardware. But as I said, even this have to be proved, we don't know at all if MorphOS Team have used decompilations of AmigaOS in the development of MorphOS, it's just speculations for now. And if it's true this will only be valid for the version of MorphOS that will come with Pegasos because to be illegal this practices have to be used to develop a product that run on a different hardware than the original product that have been decompiled in some parts for the development of the new product.
All I say here are easily checkable on laws and have also already been confirmed by Ben Hermans, lawyer, on a precedent thread on ANN.
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