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Originally Posted by admiral
Copyright law is complex, and licenses are written with it in mind, by people who understand law.
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It only gets complex when people try to abuse it - which lawyers love making money out of.
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This is just how it is, and I do not like it either, but anything else than a well-known license is considered a minefield.
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It's only a 'minefield' if
you make it one.
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Most people won't go anywhere near it, including myself, because it is simply not worth the risks and trouble. Given the relationship between Amiga and legal drama, I can't blame anybody for being paranoid.
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Considering that X-Copy was the favorite tool of immoral Amiga fans seeking to violate copyright laws, the idea that its own code should be protected by copyright is perverse.
But that's not why I wouldn't go near it. The program is needlessly non OS-friendly and pathetically buggy, so reading the source code would probably rot my brain.