[sdiy] Legal issues of cloning

[Magnus Danielson]

On 10/06/2013 09:57 PM, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> 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).
Which is copyright issue, and a much longer time-out on that. Too long.

Cheers,
Magnus