Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:31:01PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > IIRC, ceasing to exist just takes the copyrights with you, and no one > has the right to use them. (All at once, "We love the copyright laws! > We love the copyright laws!" (-: ) Copyright is property just like anything else, and it

Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread Lynn Winebarger
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

Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread Carey Evans
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By Commodore, presumably when the company ceased to exist. They > admit not having any proof of this. However, it's been a very long > time since I've heard anything about Commodore, and a quick web search > on Commodore Copyright came up empty of anyt

Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:31:01PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > > IIRC, ceasing to exist just takes the copyrights with you, and no one > has the right to use them. (All at once, "We love the copyright laws! > We love the copyright laws!" (-: ) > Hmm.. This is an interesting situation. I don't

Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread David Starner
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

Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms

2000-02-21 Thread David Starner
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 exp