MorphOS Developer
Posts: 619 from 2005/8/27
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Shouldn't it just be a Rexx port? Are there copyright issues involved in using ARexx?
No, there's no such thing as a copyright on a name (there's however trademarks, but no such thing applies for ARexx, and neither would it really be a problem in this case).
My work (which btw is already partially included in MorphOS) is based on reverse-engineering of the original ARexx, which is legal here (luckily).
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Could we use Rexx and make it ARexx-compatible and call it "MRexx?"
You could do what was done for AROS; take an existing interpreter (Regina) and extend it to be compatible with ARexx, however this means that no existing programs with ARexx ports will work (since these are tied to deep intrinsics in rexxsyslib.library), which makes it pretty much pointless for MorphOS...
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