| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 08 Aug 2000 at 18:00:48 |
| Subject: | Re: morphos ;-) |
Steffen Haeuser wrote:
>
> Same situation for MorphOS. It cannot optimize parts which are in any way
> copyrighted by Amiga. Only parts owned by different parties, like CGX. Parts
> included in AmigaOS can only be done with the permission of Amiga as I would
> see... and probably H&P would have better chances here than MorphOS.
Not true; if the function is publicly documented and you don't work
from the original function's code (without permission), but just it's
description, it is perfectly legal to make a replacement function.
People have done this time and again on the Amiga... what do you
think CGX is? Replaced graphics.library and intuition.library
functions plus an extra library. Ever seen FastBlit? Or
FasterMemCopy? Many optimized parts of copyrighted Amiga libraries
and devices have been around for YEARS without ONE PEEP from Amiga.