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In article <VINSCI.91Jan13145752@nic.nic.funet.fi> vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
>In article <1991Jan12.214301.10882@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>In article <1991Jan11.220207.5131@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> pepers@enme3.UUCP (Brad Pepers) writes:
>>>
>>>The amiga.lib file should come with the PDC distribution. I think its
>>>their own reverse engineered AMIGA.LIB that C= sends out. I also had
>>  amiga.lib C is copyright CBM. Manx and SAS both have to
>>pay Commodore for the right to distribute it and the Amiga
>>include files.
>
>The *generation* of the PDC Amiga.lib is OK. The distribution of the
>result publicly is not necessarily OK (unless they check that the
>receiver also is the owner of an Amiga Extras disk), as it clearly is
>a derived work of the AmigaBasic .fd files as found on every Extras
>disk. The distribution of a program that creates an amiga.lib from the
>same files is perfectly legit, though.
>  Of couse, I'm no lawyer.

    If it is generated from scratch from the FD files, with other incidental
    routines written by the PDC people, then it is publically distributable.

    If it is the commodore-supplied amiga.lib, then it is not.

    MANX, SAS, Myself (DICE), and a few other people have licensed the
    amiga includes and amiga.lib from Commodore but we cannot distribute
    them publically either, only as part of a product.

>> -- Ethan
>
>-- Leonard

				    -Matt

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