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Emulation and production of expansions & 3rd party replacement parts of older home computers often are in a legal grey area regarding permission to use, distribute, or modify the original IP.

Permission like this is very clarifying and welcome, and has nothing to do with what you run on your Debian box.




Thanks for the reply (I note lots of non-explained downvotes, which are always frustrating in response to an earnest question).

Debian reference was perhaps not useful -- more a comparison for vintage of code in use.

I appreciate that it's a grey area, and I grew up coding 6502 & 6510 assembly on C64, hence the interest in reading through the pdf's provided.

It's more the 'non-commercial usage is okay' caveat for the release. I genuinely don't know if there's a possibility of commercial use, or, beyond that question, why the restriction would be placed (it seems extremely unlikely it's for financial reasons).




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