On 06/06/2018 01:13, Jim Brain wrote: > Sure, that is possible, but highly impractical. Copyright law doesn't have an exemption that permits violating copyright just because it makes things harder for you. CBM must have granted CMD a license at some point. That license either gave CMD permission to sell licenses to the drive manufacturers and they conveniently missed that out in court, or it didn't give them permission but they didn't understand or care about the terms and still took the money. While I understand the desire to give people the benefit of the doubt. Not understanding or caring when selling licenses to people already in litigation with CBM, when CBM were refusing to license the drive roms (either at all or JiffyDOS was a cheaper option) there isn't really any doubt they could benefit from. It's all a long time ago and people like to paint a brighter picture of their past & I hadn't set out for this to be an attack on anyone, but JiffyDOS is a derivative work of the CBM 1541 rom and the license terms (if any) CMD had is important. The license may not be transferable, or even valid to be transferred. The copyright CMD has over the JiffyDOS changes is still valid of course. I had always thought that CMD had a license and that selling JiffyDOS licenses to the drive manufacturers was a valid way round it.Received on 2018-06-06 15:00:04
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