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Re: BRUTAL DELUXE : System 6.02 soon available ??



Dave Roberts (daver@ns.interactive.net) wrote:
: zardini@emi.u-bordeaux.fr (Olivier Zardini) writes:
: >	After 2 months of hard work, we are proud to announce that we
: >have made the source code of the WHOLE Apple //gs 6.01 SYSTEM. 

: 	Wow cool :)

: 	Sounds like copyright violations to me. But, if you have code for
: FSTs with a few comments here and there, I'd be more than interested ^_^

: >We perfectly know that the Apple //gs system is not a public domain 
: >software and the fact of releasing a new version is probably illegal.
: >But, if we and you don't do it, who will do it ? Apple has decided to
: >leave the Apple II community and will never change his mind. But, if
: >someone at Apple Comp wants to help us, that will be a good thing.  

: 	Good attitude, but I don't think Apple's lawyers will see things your
: way. It's mildly possible that no one would find out or care, but..

I don't think it would be copyright infringement if the update came out
as a "Tune-up" type of disk. Similar to the "Mega Patch Disk" that later
became Appleworks 4.

I would welcome and certainly help out on a project like this.

Paul Schultz 
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