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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 16:13:30 GMT
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On Fri, January 27, 2006 10:55 am, Jordan Bradford wrote:
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
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http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=40
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/fairplay.asp
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Is the RCX.NET project’s name technically a trademark violation? • ...
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
TLG can say about code you write for yourself. But, if you’re sharing that
code, it could easily look like LEGO officially endorces it, if it’s called
NXT.NET or something like that. In which case, they may ask you to change the
name. Just avoid that, by using another name.
Steve
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| (...) Steve, do you think TLG would object to leJOS NeXT? Legally I it should be okay, since I don't think people can trademark a common word like 'Next'. I'm not sure if capitalization of letters matters with regards to trademarks though. Someone (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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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, (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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