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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 21:36:58 GMT
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Brian Stormont <BRIAN@PROJO.saynotospamCOM>
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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. From my reading of the agreement, I don't think it
is obvious that it also covers the firmware.
In any case, there still is nothing legally preventing someone from replacing
their firmware with another version of firmware. The licensing agreement only
dealt with copying and reverse-engineering the software Lego provided. As for
what "software" that is, the lawyers will have to argue...
-brian
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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