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Originally Posted by Zetr0
However you could look at licensing Workbench 3.x from Cloanto and develop a good upgraded and honed 3.x Workbench for people to buy.
WHDLoad games however are still under copyright for the most part - as such including them in any distro (without permission from the IP holders) would be illegal as such you could start a crusade to contact as many authors and IP holders as possible for inclusion of their Amiga games - some might be interested others will decline but I think it would be a valiant use of ones time =)
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Yup, I think it would be a very worthy and meritorious effort.
Also note that downloading WHDLoad games explicitly makes the process automatically illegal. The user has to be the one which provides the download address in order for your program to stay legal.
From a legal perspective, pre-installing packs of WHDLoad-ed games requires the user to own these games already, if they do not own them then the legal question which pops up is why would they expect to be able to install them automatically?
If they own these games they likely already have a WHDLoad library which you could use to build the HDF.
An alternative would be to script WHDLoad to install the games one by one into the HDF with the user providing the original floppies.
And the better alternative would be Zetr0's proposition to obtain proper licensing from the owners. You could then have a "free but with floppy based installation" version or a "fully pre installed version with a fee to cover the licensing cost".