On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, smf wrote: > On 02/06/2016 05:17, William Levak wrote: >> The US Supreme Court has ruled that reverse engineering a product is legal. >> It's what you do with the information that may be illegal. > > The specific question was related to Ricoh copying the 6502 and producing > their own versions, with BCD disabled to avoid the patent. I'm not sure how > many chips MOS made after 1989 (CIA's mostly) but the protection only lasts > 10 years, so it should be fine now anyway. > > For internal roms it becomes slightly more complex as they likely are still > covered by copyright and if you publish an image of it then it's probably > going to be recoverable. Very few MOS chips have internal roms and I don't > imagine anyone has piles of cash to fight you posting something that old > online. Chip masks are usually copyrighted. But in order to get the copyright, you have to provide a copy of the image, which becomes public record. Theoretically, you could get a copy of the image from the Library of Congress. wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-06-04 04:00:02
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