Date   : Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:00:30 +0000 (GMT)
From   : amh15@... (Alan Hart)
Subject: Re: Roms and (C)

> My guess is that it would be illegal to patch (derived works?). However, don't
> jump on me for Acorn's decision - I have no say in these matters whatsoever.
I'm
> just covering my back (I've been hauled over the coals for 'inappropriate'
postings
> before & don't want it to happen again :-(

Sorry, William, I didn't mean to have a go at you. I was simply trying to 
point out that it's the _use_ of the emulators which appears to be illegal. 
I still think that it probably wouldn't be illegal to make a patch for 65Host
publicly available, just illegal to use it. But I could be wrong about that,
I think you'd have to ask a specialist lawyer. This whole business of writing
and using emulators appears (according to Acorn) to be illegal, but people
are continuing with it anyway, so I don't think we should worry too much here
about the consequences of _using_ the file in question, only the legality of
posting it somewhere.

Alan

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