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Subject: Re: [AN1x] Re: V1.04 for AN1X?
From: DEREK COOK <dacook.sa432bb@...>
Date: 2014-02-12
Hi
Yamaha can be pretty over zealous on copyright. Over at EX5Tech we've always been wary of copyright ever since Ski had a "cease and desist" demand from Yamaha Japan for hosting a scanned copy of a CS15 patch chart!
The same has been true on ROMS I used to have contacts in Yamaha UK and on EX5Tech we have sought permission to program the EX5 OS (ona not for profit basis), and the answer from Yamaha was always "no". But at the time Yamaha UK did promise to keep the OS upgrade service going for as long as possible, and to helkp people in other countries who were getting problems getting the OS. Fair play to them, they were true to their word..
But the EX5 OS upgrade seems to have dried up now, and I keep meaning when I get time to see whether it's OK to now host the OS images and offer a "not for profit" ROM programming service. I could ask the same about the AN1x as well.
Cheers
Derek