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RE: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:29:26 GMT
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Eric Hodges <ERIC.HODGES@PLATINUMantispam.COM>
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As I understand it, microcode is protected as software. It doesn't matter
how you store it or distribute it, but the way it is used. If it consists
of instructions for a computer, then it is considered to be a computer
program and is subject to copyright law.
Why would it be any other way? Why would microcode or firmware be exempt
from copyright protection? How could anyone safely invest in the
development of either of those if they were?
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Speed [SMTP:pspeed@augustschell.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 12:06 PM
To: 'lego-robotics@crynwr.com'
Subject: Re: legOS
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
Eric Hodges wrote:
>
> 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
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> 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 1 Reply:
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| I guess more specifically, where does computer stop and hardware start? According to the law, that is. -Paul (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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