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Re: Using NXT in a name - legal?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:55:19 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
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In lugnet.robotics, Brian Bagnall wrote:
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I was wondering if there is anyone from Lego or someone well versed in
legalese that can tell me if it’s ok to use ‘NXT’ in an open source project
name? e.g. “leJOS NXT”
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Brian,
LEGO posted a very nice message on Lugnet about this a couple years ago, after
a news story came out, questioning TLG’s approach to such things.
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=40
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/fairplay.asp
In short, the answer will be no. I’m sure they’ll be quick to put NXT right
next to RCX on their list of “Do Not Use” words. But, they will be very
polite when they ask you not to use it.
Steve
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Is the RCX.NET project’s name technically a trademark violation? I just started
working with José David Parra on a redesign of his original namespace, so now
maybe he’ll have to rename it, too. :)
What’s LEGO’s position on code namespaces, though? For example, to create your
base object in RCX.NET you currently do this:
RCXNET.SpiritNET objSpirit = new RCXNET.SpiritNET();
objSpirit.BrickType = RCXNET.SpiritNET.eBrickType.RCX2;
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This is creates an object that will talk to the IR tower and tell the RCX what
to do. It’s barely a wrapper of SpiritOCX, so it’s exposing a whole bunch of
stuff that the typical Mindstorms programmer doesn’t need to see.
We were going to redesign it to be more like this (C#):
using Mindstorms;
using Mindstorms.RCX2; // RCX2 == an RCX with 2.0 firmware
// . . .
RCX2 myRobot = new RCX2();
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This makes it somewhat similar to leJOS but for .NET languages. Are our
namespace and class names in the code also going to be a problem?
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| (...) ... (...) As it turns out, I just started on a project like that. I intentionally went out of my way to avoid using the letters N, X, & T right NeXT to each other. My totally unofficial opinion would be something like this. There's not much (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| (...) Brian, LEGO posted a very nice message on Lugnet about this a couple years ago, after a news story came out, questioning TLG's approach to such things. (URL) short, the answer will be no. I'm sure they'll be quick to put NXT right next to RCX (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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