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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 21:47:15 GMT
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Ricardo Lagos <ricardo.lagos@eng.sun.com/IHateSpam/>
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In reality i dont see what the point of this discussion is:
.. the work being done on LegOS is only likely to sell more MS units.. (since
you need the RCX to use LegOS .. so TLG is not likely to loose money because of
the work done by LegOS or NQC .. therefore the licensing agreement may never
come up for interpretation ....
.. if someone takes the LegOS work and mates it with their own implementation of
teh RCX brick, and attempts to sell that as a product.. THEN i can see TLG
having a problem with it.. otherwise i'd think that they would be happy to have
a community of developers making free "value-added" software for their hardware.
-- Ricardo Lagos
.. just MY $0.02
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:36:58 -0500
> From: "Brian Stormont" <brian@projo.com>
> X-Accept-Language: en
> To: lego <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
> Subject: Re: legOS
>
>
> 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
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> Eric Hodges wrote:
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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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| (...) That's what you'd think. But if this was how TLG thought, they would have published the specs for talking to the Control Lab. In fact TLG is notoriously - I was going to say "hostile to", but "uninterested in" is closer to the truth - its (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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