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Re: Delphi developers
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:34:14 GMT
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"Dr. Bob Miller" <74471.3622@compuserve.com> writes:
> [...]
> MindControl - public domain, no source, apparently written in Visual Basic, at
> http://homepages.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/ which is Erik Brok's beautiful
> "Lego On My Mind" site. This program also allows you to download programs
> written in Spirit commands to the RCX. (You have to use something external
> like NotePad to edit your program.)
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> Gordon's Brick Programmer - public domain, no source, maybe VB, at
> http://www.umbra.demon.co.uk/gbp.html
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> Not Quite C - public domain, with source. A C-like programming language
> compiler for the RCX, at http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/lego/nqc .
> [...]
Yikes -- be careful there with that phrase "public domain" -- Gordon's Brick
Programmer is definitely *not* public domain; it is Copyright ©1998 by
Malcom S. Powell and is released as freeware with the specific terms of use
defined at the bottom of Gordon's page.
Neither is Not Quite C public domain; it is released under the MPL,
<http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html>
Finally, MindControl doesn't seem to contain a copyright notice anywhere (as
far as I can tell), but that doesn't make it public domain software either.
In order for something to be public domain, it has to be explicitly declared
as such. ("Public domain" simply means "not copyrighted.") Also note that
under the modern U.S. copyright law, entities are automatically copyrighted
by the act of their creation, even if they are not explicitly declared as
being copyrighted by their creator.
Copyright laws of course differ from country to country, but you don't want
to unintentionally mislead people into thinking the wrong thing. In this
case, the wrong thing might include using all or parts of someone else's
code in one's own project without including the original author's copyright
notice and/or accompanying documentation.
Almost every piece of software is released under a slightly different set of
conditions these days; it's important to read and understand the conditions
of each, and to note that releasing something into the public domain is an
extremely rare occurrence. :)
--Todd
p.s. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
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| John - Amazing coincidence! See my post of today. I would urge you to get the SPIRIT SDK from (URL) if you haven't already, print it out, import the SPIRIT OCX into your Delphi 2 3 or 4 Component Palette, and fire away! I think you can say that the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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