Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:13:44PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:36:05PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > > Moving to Debian-Legal...
> > >
> > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:11:49PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> > > > I've been having a conversation with the
> > > > upstream authors of VICE, and they believe that the rights to those
> > > > firmware ROMs have been released.
> > >
> > > Released? By whom? And how? Copyright law is usually very explict -
> >
> > By Commodore, presumably when the company ceased to exist.
>
> Didn't they sell the rights to them, or transfer them to some
> debtor?
I would check with whoever currently owns the Amiga IP. Or someone
remaining in the Amiga community. The Commodore bankruptcy saga was
followed with great interest.
Lynn
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