[Coco] FPGA CoCos

[Tormod Volden]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 6:38 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> Ok. Well, it's just a little fuzzy to me.  The BASIC he is using is
>> definitely the same BASIC that was used in the CoCo which to my knowledge
>> was created by Microsoft.  I know this because you can follow right along
>> with the BASIC unraveled book which disassembles the CoCo ROM.  As long as
>> Grant knows it's ok to use that's fine with me but I may be a little
>> hesitant about passing it along to anyone else since I don't personally know
>> what the agreement is.  It doesn't matter that much as the project could be
>> made so that each person would have to obtain their own ROM image.  And, as
>> far as I can tell, there are plenty of them floating around on the internet
>> if you don't have the ability to personally dump the ROM from your CoCo.
>
> So, someone modifies copyrighted code from Microsoft (mostly
> taking stuff out), and then feels they have the right to stipulate
> restrictions on further use of that software?  Do not take legal
> advice from this person...

I believe Grant's restrictions were on his web page, VHDL code and
hardware designs, and not on the ROM. He says: "The original copyright
owners of ROM contents are respectfully acknowledged."

I didn't find a link in this thread :( but here it is:

http://searle.hostei.com/grant/Multicomp/index.html

Tormod