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LICENSE covered the whole repository, so the MIT grant read as covering 9.9 GB of third-party firmware. It now states its scope and NOTICE describes the files it does not cover, with a removal channel. The FAQ cited Connectix and Accolade for redistribution when both decided intermediate copying during reverse engineering, presented fair use as settled, read section 1201(f) as a general permission, and listed abandonware among legal doctrines. Each claim is now stated at the strength it actually has, and the weakest ground is named.
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RetroBIOS - status of the distributed files
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This repository holds two kinds of material with two different statuses.
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1. Tooling and metadata
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Everything authored here - the Python scripts, JSON schemas, emulator
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profiles, platform configurations, documentation and the generated database -
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is released under the MIT License in LICENSE.
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2. BIOS, firmware, keys and ROM sets
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The files under bios/ and inside the release packs are third-party system
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software. They remain the property of their respective manufacturers, are not
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covered by the MIT License, and no licence to them is granted or implied by
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this repository.
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They are preserved and made available for personal backup, archival, and
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interoperability with emulation software. The reasoning the project relies on
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is set out in the FAQ:
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https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/wiki/faq/#is-this-legal
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That reasoning is the project's good-faith position, not legal advice, and it
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has not been tested in court.
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Reporting a file
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A rights holder, or anyone acting for one, who wants a specific file removed
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can open an issue at
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https://github.com/Abdess/retrobios/issues
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identifying the file by path or hash. Requests are handled on receipt, and a
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file whose removal is requested by its rights holder is removed from the
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repository and from the next release without requiring a formal notice. State
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the file and the basis of the claim; no particular format is needed.
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