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Originally Posted by wXR
Here is my personal list of priorities:
1. AmigaOS 3.1 made GPL
2. Picasso96 made GPL
3. CyberGrafX made GPL
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Why? I don't need a detailed answer, but your statements so far imply that you want to do this just to screw Hyperion/Cloanto and for no other reason.
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Right now we need to find a competent attorney
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It might be theoretically possible to prove that the later incarnations of AInc were not the legal owners of the code - and hence couldn't really license and/or sell it to Hyperion and Cloanto. Hyperion actually did a not so bad job of proving that during the court battle against AInc - until they got what they wanted (settlement agreement) and dropped all their charges.
Problem is: Somebody
does own the code. Even if you manage to invalidate Hyperion's and Cloanto's licenses (partially in the latter case, they have some quite old licenses too), there would still be an owner - one that is extremely hard to track down, insane (McEwen) or dead (Kouri), might not give a shit (Gateway) stopped existing 20 years ago and didn't even have his paperwork in order back then (Escom) etc.
IMHO, that approach can not work. You will have to forget about all the shady machinations of the last 20 years, pretend the current owners are the rightful owners and try to buy the rights from them.