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Re: Relating to my recent discussions with Steve Wozniak.



On 4/28/2012 7:20 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Kyle Lund wrote:

On Friday, April 27, 2012 10:56:38 PM UTC-4, Kyle Lund wrote:
I'm about to make a Apple //e replica on a FPGA. I contacted Wozniak
regarding certain source code needed to make it functional, and he
said he would happily give me any rights he owned, but the majority
it was owned by Apple. Can any of you point me in the direction of
clearing the neccesary code rights.

Regards,
Kyle Lund

Perhaps I could try to get the permissions from Franklin for their
firmware, or perhaps VTech?


Well, the Laser 128 monitor rom was copyrighted by Central Point which
got bought out by Symantec.

Applesoft Basic - both on the Apple and on the Laser - is copyrighted to
Microsoft.

-uso.

maybe i'm dumb but does this not fall under the "abandonware" or vintage computing part of the law that states you are trying to save/improve something for the future ie historical recreation etc

(sorry above sounds dense but you prob get what i mean)

brad
former sysop lost gonzo bbs

hey i'd make a 'bad' lawyer .....but i mean really are they really gonna care?