[sdiy] Legal issues of cloning

[John Ames]

On 10/6/13, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
> Yes, you can probably build a Jupiter 8 for less than
> £5000, but you won't be getting paid for any of the hundreds of hours you
> spend programming the firmware for the thing.
The firmware for something like the JP8 really shouldn't be that
complicated, even with MIDI support added in. It's not even like my
Matrix-6 where all the modulation is entirely digital and there's a
complex virtual patch-matrix to set up. Of course, it's still *work,*
but on the software side it should be entirely doable by one guy as a
hobby project. (No idea about the hardware, though - but if Jack ever
does come up with a solid Jupiter-8 clone, you can bet I'll be first
in line!)