On Thursday 21 March 2002 23:58, you wrote:
> I did not interest in MSX Player. Because we can use other Emulators like
> fMSX, JAVA MSX Emulator, Zodiac, RuMSX and freeM etc.. But Hidekatsu
> Yokoi told me that MSX Player can emulate many MSX softwares more than
> the other Emulators. Probably it is No.1 emulate function. And MSX Player
> is fine work with The souce of Power produced by ANMA. It is cool thing!
fMSX can do that for over a year now. In fact, I sent some patches to Marat
that make the Source of Power run. This is not something that MSX Player
added.
I don't like the way they take advantage of the huge effort Marat put into
fMSX and also the contributions made by Alex Wulms, myself and several
others, without giving proper credit. I don't want cash, I don't even care
much if my name isn't mentioned, but someone else taking credit for work I
did makes me furious.
> Price of MSX Player. Windows version is free price. And Yokoi wants OPEN
> SOUCE CODE LICENSE like GNU. But some program code writters donot like
> it. They wants protect their program technology from other people.
He cannot license the code under GPL without permission from Marat. You
cannot give away something you don't own.
> But Yokoi will fix this problem use via their barrister. Long time, Yokoi
> doesnot contact with Marat. Because Marat told that I can wait. At first,
> Yokoi negotiations with MicroSoft more than Marat. Message to Marat:
>
> You need not worry. Yokoi will pay royalty till distribute the MSX
> Player.
At less than a month before the planned release date, they'd better hurry.
> And Nishi paied many money to buy copyright of MSX from ASCII
> Corporation. Now, MSX Associations has Copyright of MSX, NOT ASCII Corp!
What is "copyright of MSX"? MSX emulators are written using publicly
available information and reverse engineering. There is no copyright
necessary to create an MSX emulator.
> Okazaki made very cool emulator of FM Music. And Yokoi discuss about it
> with Yamaha Corporation. Yamaha will NOT appeal to the law! Because this
> emulator is NOT use technology of Yamaha at all!
That is good news, but not a surprise really. In fact, Yamaha realised that
it is allowed to create a piece of software that is compatible with a piece
of hardware, when that software is written based on publicly available
information and/or reverse engineering. If this is true for OPLL, why
wouldn't it apply to any other piece of MSX hardware?
Bye,
Maarten
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