Re: Reclassification of S-C Assembler

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <38FC486E.45A50C@ssc.qld.edu.au>,
Willie Yeo  <willie@ssc.qld.edu.au> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> That's an inefficient administration of resources.  It took me a
>> total of perhaps a few hours to locate the authors of the S-C
>> Assembler and Flash! The Integer Basic Compiler, and then have an
>> email conversation with then to get their permission to release their
>> software to the public domain.
> 
> Paul, firstly I'd like to thank you for your efforts in getting yet a
> few more titles to be reclassified for the benefit of the Apple II
> Community. I am able to verify the reclassification, and it shall be listed
> later on in the Treasure Chest Project pages.
> 
> On the other hand, I'd like to say this as well, both Treasure Chest
> Project and the Lost Classics spends a great amount of time tracking down
> author(s) and copyright owner(s) in search of them reclassifying their
> titles. It is not an easy path, we have of course setbacks and such. We
> track leads and even look hard, but since there are many titles that has
> been released for the Apple II family of computers, it is not easy to look
> for all.
> 
> It is easy for you to focus all your energy into a specific target,
 
:-) ... I wasn't focusing *all* my energy on getting Flash! and SC-Asm
released to the Public Domain....
 
> but for us, it is a multiple target.
 
I can very well understand your situation if you're trying to get as
much Apple II software as possible reclassified as PD: there is so
much of it!  Which really makes it even more sensible to try to
"release" as much as possible of it all, rather than rewriting it
all from scratch....
 
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BTW someone mentioned here that writing a new program which mimics an
older program is illegal too.  Which makes me wonder: doesn't that
make all Apple II emulators illegal?  They do have a lot of the
"look-and-feel" of the original Apple II (a copyrighted product),
don't they?
 
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