On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:52:13 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:39 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:52:39PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 19:54 +0100, Lars wrote:
hello
it would be nice to migrate the vice commodore emulator package from fedora.us to the official extras repo.
in true oldschool-gaming-spirit,
vice was removed from fedora extras b/c of potential legal issues.
Aww shucks. That rules out all vintage emulators, then, one of my favorite pasttimes :( Kegs, stella, uae, ...
Unless you can get written permission from the original trademark/copyright holders, they're all forbidden. :(
Hey, maybe someday, they'll slip into the public domain. When I'm 370.
Although I'm not aware of any legal actions against authors of Commodore home computer emulators, such as VICE or UAE, who include the original ROM contents, these emulators are a grey area. For the trademark/copyright holders, it's a trade-off between seeing the emulators, and the scene surrounding them, as advertizing (e.g. some either pretend or believe that there's still a real market, a target group of nostalgia fans, who buy new/related products and software for the old technology) and as infringement of copyrights or patents. Occasionally, there have been reports of a few cease-and-desist letters to web sites, which offer copyrighted games for download.
Excerpt from an explanation I posted elsewhere:
The copyright for these images is with Commodore International BV, a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, Netherlands. The old 'Commodore' trademark has been bought by Tulip, and recently they've signed a letter of intent with California based Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc to sell their entire Commodore subsidiary. YMV's business model increases the likelihood of actions against emulator authors and copyright infringement.
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