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RE: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:53:57 GMT
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Eric Hodges <eric.hodges@%NoMoreSpam%platinum.com>
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It's the law. Software isn't defined by the media it's stored in or the
way it is stored. It doesn't make any legal difference if you distribute
the software on a CD or printed on the back of a T-shirt. The copyright
laws consider software to be any "set of statements or instructions to be
used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain
result."( 17 U.S.C ? 101) Software distributed on ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, etc.
is still covered by the copyright laws.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kekoa Proudfoot [SMTP:lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 11:26 AM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: legOS
Eric Hodges <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> Firmware is software. It doesn't matter if you burn software into ROM,
> store it on EPROM, store it as PAL settings, core memory values, etc.
> Software is software, and firmware is software.
Is this your opinion? Or do you have something to back this with?
-Kekoa
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: legOS
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| Just curious, and since you seem to have some information handy, where is the line between firmware and microcode drawn? Or is microcode also considered firmware? -Paul (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: legOS
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| Assuming firmware is "software", the question still remains whether the licensing agreement that came with the Mindstorms kit refers to only the PC-based software (which was my interpretation when I read it) or whether it refers to the firmware too. (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: legOS
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| (...) The issue at stake is not the copyright. It's the license agreement. -Kekoa (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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