27 Feb
1998
27 Feb
'98
9:23 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tim Shoppa wrote:
The CD-ROM carries Walnut Creek's copyright. However, in view of
the fact that the vast majority of the files are public domain
selections from various contributors, I would have to conclude that
the copyright covered only the arrangement of the collection rather
than the content. This is much the same approach that SIMTEL took
with their stuff.
Tim, I am unable to find the Ampro Little Board BIOS source. There
are some utilities, patches, and such in source form and a text
reference to a file 38BIOS.LBR (in the JSAGE area), but I cannot
locate the file itself. Can you cite directory pointers, please.
- don
donm(a)cts.com
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Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) - 619-454-8412
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj
visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Weg site at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm
Walnut is a CD
publisher. Unless they assembled the disc themselves,
then someone else assembled the data and may own the (collection
copyright) rights to reproduction of new CDs. Of course, they may
be looking for a new publisher, or may try to publish it themselves.
And you also have to consider that at least 95% of the Walnut
Creek CD-ROM was simply assembled from materials lying around
the net and on various CP/M BBS's. I'm not sure how they
got permission for the remaining 5% (things such as the Ampro
Little Board BIOS sources, etc.)
Tim.