Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole 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 Lines: 23 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.......). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole Simon Poole BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------