Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)

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Re: A86: ROM Images (legal battle thread)


At 03:02 PM 11/17/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/17/98 1:08:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, thruska@tir.com
>writes:
>
>> 
>>  Ummm...He who is the archiver at ticalc.org doesn't know that the 82 has
>>  assembly capabilities?  He who personally put CrASH, ASH, JASS, and
>>  OShell-82 shells for the TI-82 says it no longer exists.  This sounds like
>>  hypocrisy to me.  Besides, how did we get an 82 shell in the first place?
>>  Someone had to use the TI ROM for research purposes.  So, Bryan
Rabeler, if
>>  TI doesn't allow their ROM to be used for research purposes, you had
better
>>  remove every last assembly shell, game, and program from the 82
directories
>>  or you are in serious legal trouble.  However, TI can't and won't
prosecute
>>  since "programming research" is legal under the copyright law.
>
>
>ti did not support assembly on the ti-82, so it was NOT meant to be
>programmed, which voids all uses of "programming research" in investigating
>the rom of the ti-82. in contrast, ti supported assembly on the ti-86, so it
>was meant to be programmed, justifying the "programming research" claim.

So, according to the paragraph that you have just written, you are fully
supporting everything that I have said.  Since "programming research" is
void for the investigation of the 82 ROM image, then every last assembly
shell, game, and program must be deleted from the TI-82 directories at
ticalc.org (and other major sites) or they are in serious legal trouble
since everything can be linked to "programming research" on the 82 ROM.
Yet, you also give the EXCEPTION that it is perfectly legal to distribute
the 86 ROM image since TI supported assembly under the legal umbrella of
"programming research."  So, I'm just making sure that you know that you
are _FOR_ 86 ROM image distribution and _AGAINST_ 82 ROM distribution
because of one minor thing:  internal assembly support.  You are saying
therefore that it is perfectly legal to distribute any TI ROM image that
has internal assembly support.  This excludes the TI-85 and TI-82
calculators only.


                 Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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