Date   : Tue, 05 Mar 1996 23:23:08 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Tom Seddon <T.W.Seddon@...>
Subject: Re: Questions on BBC ROM image availability

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, William Turner wrote:

> OK, please feel free to add/alter the list of questions below.
> 
> I shall pass this list onto the person responsible for licensing
> issues at lunchtime tomorrow (Wed 5th March).
> 
> Seeing as I've just got Dave Gibert's posting, I'll let him
> start the questioning!
> 
> =====================================================
> Questions regarding the availablilty of BBC ROM images
> =====================================================
> 
> Question 1: (gilbertd@...)
> -----------
>   Would be possible to have something less than publically available; for
>   example one thing I could think of would be allowing them to be ftp'd
>   from an Acorn ftp site in the same way as some of the software which
>   Acorn already makes available on there.
>   I would not expect Acorn to put the stuff into the public domain, however
>   issuing a statement that they would allow them to be used solely for
>   the purpose of emulators (on a non-commercial basis?) on a good will
>   basis would surely be easier; it would remain completely under Acorns
>   control and wouldn't raise issues as to the worth of the software
>   being released?
> 
> 

Question 2: (T.W.Seddon@...)
What about the use of out-of-date BASIC/operating system versions? For 
example OS 1.0 and BASIC 1, or maybe even OS 0.1.

--Tom
 
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