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 - copyright transfers must be in writting, and you can't lose copyright just by ignoring abuses of it. > I note further that those ROMs are > currently being distributed within the US on such major mirrors such > as metalab.unc.edu. Irrelevant. Cf. the whole KDE incident - "they do it" is not a sufficent excuse. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
