Re: Most used 6502 Assembler?

On 2013-06-21, at 23:20, Groepaz wrote:

> On Friday 21 June 2013, you wrote:
>> On 2013-06-21, at 21:13, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>>> Note that SF and/or github might have problems with that source, as it
>>> might not exactly fit their (or the) definition of open-source. ;)
>> 
>> ? Isn't copyright for that already expired? 
> 
> copyright generally does not expire until 70 years after death of the 
> copyright holder (author). this is not the case for ANY 8bit software ever 
> written :)

I think this is for literature and similar things. I thought it was something like 25 years from the year of first publication for the software or other forms of "computer art". But I may be wrong on that. It is just that it seemed to "fit" with the time when the ROM content started to be re-published with emulators.

>> I am not a law expert on the
>> matter but I thought it expired when VICE team started to provide own
>> copies.
> 
> at some point commodore employees stated on comp.sys.emulators (or .cbm - dont 
> remember exactly) that they do not care about ROMs included in emulators - 
> that is when emulator authors started including them. technically, every 
> emulator including the ROMs is still violating copyright. (however, since 
> noone seems to know who even owns the copyright for the 8bit ROMs, this isnt 
> much of an issue, since only the copyright owner could complain about it)

Right. I believe nobody will, because probably nobody can really claim and defend the ownership. Even former CBM employees don't own the copyright and whoever (is there an entity which does and didn't go bankrupt?) owns what's left of CBM probably doesn't even know that something like those ROMs codebase ever existed ;-)

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