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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Jos Vermaseren - Posting GEMDOS ... (illegality)
Message-ID: <343@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 88 18:32:23 GMT
References: <8806211323.AA02010@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <8806211323.AA02010@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> U0179@DGOGWDG5.BITNET ("GWDGV1::WHUEBNER") writes:
....
>>2: a book that was recently published in Germany with a discompilation of
>>   of GEMDOS. This last thing seems to be fully illegal to me. Is one really
>>   allowed to do this?
....
>As one of the three authors (part AHDI) of the book "Das TOS-Listing -
>BIOS/GEMDOS/VDI (Kramer,Riebl,Huebner) I have to answer your question
>with    Y E A H .
....
>We are really allowed to publish this book with a written permission
>of ATARI-Deutschland.

All under the assumption that Atari Germany is actually the copyright
holder for GEMDOS and VDI (which Atari Germany is NOT as far as I know,
but this is naturally for DRI and Atari to fight out.......).

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