Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!lakesys!jason From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Jos Vermaseren - Posting GEMDOS ... (illegality) Summary: I should certainly hope so Message-ID: <800@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 17:35:19 GMT References: <4730@killer.UUCP> <376@mfgfoc.UUCP> <11767@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin Lines: 24 In article <11767@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, tom@Mills.berkeley.edu (tom erbe) writes: > Greg Onufer writes: > [What he wrote... Having a program written to disassemble the ROMs with ] > [comments, etc. ] > "doesn't constitute a crime, does it? > > But when one uses this program, one is copying the ROMs. Does the software > license from Atari (is there one?) governing the system software allow > making copies for one's personal use? If it does, then this program should > be legal. If not, well, forget it. > > Tom Erbe-Technical Director-Center for Contemporary Music-Mills College I would seem that you bought the computer, with the ROMs, for your personal use. Now, if you were to distribute the disassembly, you'd be out of the arena of personal use, so that seems to be out entirely. However, you bought the ROMs and therefore can do with them as you please (within the scope of your personal use). I'm not a lawyer (nor am I studying to be one). This is just an opinion. -- Jason - Not your average iconoclast