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http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/news/38-corporate/167-amigaos-31-source-code-leak-official-statement

https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/washington/wawdce/2:2007cv00631/143245/148


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AmigaOS 3.1 source code leak - official statement

Brussels, January 5, 2016

Hyperion Entertainment wishes a happy New Year 2016 everybody!

The days between last Christmas and New Year were actually clouded by the sad fact that the source code of AmigaOS 3.1 and additional content dating back to 1994 was published and widely spread without permission of the rights-holder. Note that no code of AmigaOS 4.x was released or distributed.

Hyperion Entertainment holds an exclusive, world-wide, perpetual source-code license to the intellectual property of AmigaOS 3.1 and additional content as documented in the publicly available settlement agreement between Hyperion Entertainment and Amiga, Inc. which has taken the form of a stipulated judgement.

Based on this license AmigaOS 4.x development was started in 2001 by Hyperion Entertainment using the AmigaOS 3.1 code as a basis and as the direct successor of what Commodore left behind in 1994. AmigaOS 4.x is an actively developed product on sale and still incorporates a substantial amount of AmigaOS 3.1 code.

While this would be already more than enough of a reason to care about the unauthorised disclosure and distribution, it is also the very same settlement agreement which made all of this possible in the first place, which contractually requires Hyperion to enforce and protect any intellectual property rights associated with AmigaOS including the AmigaOS 3.1 source-code.

This entails that Hyperion Entertainment will examine all possible legal action against any unauthorised source of or use of this material it is aware of. All of this leads up to the reason why we "make such a fuss" about code which is more than 20 years old by now. While the original leak seems to stem from someone outside of the active community, it is even more sad to see quite some of the remaining active users happily participate in distributing this unauthorised copy, compromising years of development work and all possible future versions of AmigaOS and therefore biting the hand that feeds them against all common sense and in blatant violation of copyright.

Having said that, our most special thanks go to all loyal customers, user groups, dealers, partners and all others who showed and continue to show their support to us. You are the reason why AmigaOS still exists, why it remains under active development and why we care.

Thank you,
on behalf of Hyperion Entertainment, all associated developers, translators and testers.


Hyperion Entertainment CVBA
Tervurenlaan 34
1040 Brussels
Belgium

info@hyperion-entertainment.com

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Paru takich co to przeklejali linki, wobec których można by wyciągnąć kroki prawne to i w Polsce by się znalazło. Hyperion zazwyczaj w sądach był skuteczny... Zobaczymy czy na oświadczeniu się skończy czy też złodzieje dostaną po łapkach.

No i dobrze, że się odnieśli do tej sytuacji. Zawsze powinni reagować w ten sposób żeby nie było wątpliwości.
To powinno rozwiać wszystkie wątpliwości.

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AmigaOne X5000/020, Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Toxic, 2GB RAM.
Amiga1200/060 32MB RAM

Dodam tylko informację dla narzekających miłośników klasyka że Hyperion owszem ma prawa do żródeł oraz ich wykorzystywania i rozwijania, aczkolwiek nie ma praw by tak po prostu uczynić je open source i puścić do ludzi (inna sprawa czy chciałby w ogóle to zrobić). Nie wiem czy wynika to z zapisów ugody czy jakichś innych kruczków prawnych ale tak właśnie jest. Zatem źródła AmigaOS 3.1 oficjalnie nie zostaną uwolnienie prawdopodobnie nigdy.

Jeśli mam być szczery to muszę powiedzieć że w zasadzie źródła 3.1 nie wiele dają.
Mamy od wielu lat uae z jit 68k, od roku uae z jit ppc i w zasadzie można używać binarek.
Będą zawsze działać.
Dla mnie wiele więcej warte byłby źródła MUI czy Reaction.
To na tym ewentualnie można by robić amiga os czy klon pod x86.