[A83] Re: Fwd: RE: TI-OS replacement
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[A83] Re: Fwd: RE: TI-OS replacement
Aaron St.John writes:
> DCMA aside, distributing a patched ROM is clearly illegal. Copyright
> law prohibits against derived works as well as direct copies. This
> is part of the reason Microsoft is having so much success against
> certain mod chip companies - their modhips include patche bios
> images, bios images with are copyright Microsoft. However, I believe
> that actually patching the OS, and even going as far as releasing the
> patch (but not the patched OS) is legal.
Of course you can't distribute a patched ROM. But a binary patch would be
perfectly legal.
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David Phillips <david@acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/
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