22 Mar
1999
22 Mar
'99
10:33 p.m.
<Since P/OS is "in the public domain" (having been contributed to DECUS), do
<that mean that I can in principle reverse engineer it and publish my
<reverse-engineered "source code"?
Just a comment. No I don't think so.
First DEC(Compaq) still holds the copyright and it's free for use, not
free of copyright. Also I haven't seen a good disassembler for PDP11
(havent really looked either).
Still POS with the programmers toolkit was a nice multiprogramming system
with graphics back then.
Allison
23 Mar
23 Mar
2:14 a.m.
Allison resonded to my question about P/OS:
First DEC(Compaq) still holds the copyright and
it's free for use, not
free of copyright.
Yes, but apparently it's freely distributable. And in the absence of a
license, I think that implies that derived works are freely distributable
as well. My hypothetical reverse-engineerined "source code" would obviously
be a derived work.
Of course, IANAL.
Eric
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