Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> > 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.
What Yokoi wants is probably just an ideal he has. In my opinion, MSX
Player can be rewritten to NOT use any fMSX code and then be released under
the GPL.
> > 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.
This is not about emulation. It's about the right to use the name "MSX" and
the rights to the MSX standard specification.
>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?
It does. The copyright issue is not about emulators. And ofcourse, even
with emulators, the copyright of the MSX BIOS is a problem. Let's see what
Nishi and Yokoi can do to solve that...
Greetz,
Patriek
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