Comment by raverbashing
13 years ago
I wonder if this has (or had had) some legal significance.
I remember some issues with the Apple II rom being copied and that they had to add a "Copyright Apple" or something similar to the binary data.
13 years ago
I wonder if this has (or had had) some legal significance.
I remember some issues with the Apple II rom being copied and that they had to add a "Copyright Apple" or something similar to the binary data.
They added stuff to the Mac ROMs in reaction to the copying of Apple II ROMs. See http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Stolen_From_Apple...
The idea is that this poem is copyrighted as a creative work, and therefore Apple can control its distribution. The actual key contains a copyright message after the poem.
If I recall correctly, they added a watermark to the ROM. The concern was that as adversary could modify the code to make it difficult to prove that it was actually a copy. The watermark was a hidden section of the code which could be executed to demonstrate that the code did in fact originate from Apple.
If anyone can confirm/deny this, please do.