Hello, On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:56:34 +0100 Patriek Lesparre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >But in any case, it's interesting to see what will happen. If Nishi does > >acquire the copyrights of the BIOS and MSX-DOS, what sort of license will > >he release it under? Note that he could even use it prevent the BIOS > >being distributed other than with MSX Player; which would just be a pain > >to us all. To be honest I've lost trust a long time ago. > > Nishi said every emulator could use the MSX BIOS copyright free once they > got the rights. Also it was stated MSX-DOS2 would become open-source. > > I have no reason to doubt those statements. Do you? I do. I had a meeting at ASCII with Ryozo Yamashita in August, and one of the many things we were talking about was MSX-DOS(2) copyrights and source code. He told me that MSX-DOS2 is owned by the company who wrote it: Madge Corporation (www.madge.co.uk), and ASCII only had (has?) distribution rights. They don't even have the source code. And the BIOS is still owned by Microsoft. Regards, -- Javi Lavandeira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - http://www.ag0ny.com -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
