[sdiy] Legal issues of cloning

[Rainer Buchty]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Richard Wentk wrote:

> But most vintage patents have expired now, and the lack of legal 
> action suggests the big names don't really care about chasing down 
> imitators. If nothing else it would be bad PR.

That didn't keep Roland from shooting down a software clone of the MT-32 
(MT-32 Emulation Project) on the grounds of ROM copyrights (IIRC, the 
samples).

Rainer