Schematics sites? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Apr 1998

On Apr 22, 14:25, Julian Richardson wrote:
...
  > There is
the problem of copyrights and permission.  Not as easy as you'd
> think as the copyright live past the companies demise so you have to
> track where or who still holds it. 
 I think roms/disks for some machines are no longer copyrighted though,
 no? (or at least freely distributable) - I think Acron's BBC machines
 fall under this category. 
That's VERY manufacturer-specific, and doesn't apply to Acorn code.  As Allison
pointed out, you need some dispensation, either individually or to the public
at large.

...
  There seemed to be a lot of people a few years
 back who took to putting rom/disk images up on public sites until
 somebody complained - presumably there's been a crackdown on that sort
 of thing recently though... 
Well, Motorola had a go at somebody a year or two ago, as I recall, and ISTR
that ended after a bit of a row with the website in question being closed.
 OTOH, there's a site with old Sun boot roms and a note to the effect that if
anyone from Sun objects, the site will remove them immediately on official
request.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York