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Originally Posted by aNdy/AL/COS
I'm soon releasing my puzzle game, Spheroid, which is on a booting disk. I've used 'ECHO' in the startup-sequence to print a 'loading' message to an AmigaOS window before the game takes over.
Would including 'ECHO' in my 'c' drawer be subject to possibly similar licensing issues as the 'diskfont.library' as described above? I never really thought about it before...
The game is being distributed for free on itch.io, but there will be a 'donation' type button to cover some costs I incurred in resurrecting my real hardware.
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This is not what the thread is about.
On the topic of "I want my computer to print a string of text", yes, by all means use a replacement. It's a few minutes of work to write an executable that types a string argument to the default output (CLI), there should be plenty and with more features. That can never be licensable.
Overall though, I wouldn't hesitate to copy WB executables in the c: folder to distributable floppy disks or images.
The OS is expressly written to require this - i.e. the executables are not built into ROM, they are on disk, so there is no other option, if OS authors expect users to use the machines the OS is for.