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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:02:09 GMT
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Eric Hodges <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> 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.
The issue at stake is not the copyright. It's the license agreement.
-Kekoa
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: legOS
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| (...) And I should add, as Brian pointed out, that the question is not whether firmware is software, it's whether firmware is Software. As I said when I started all of this, read your license agreement again, and tell me whether or not it's obvious (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: legOS
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| (...) The issue of the license agreement does state one is not given permission to reverse engineer 'the Software'. The software is defined as 'The Software included on the MINDSTORMS LEGOI product'. I read this as including the firmware. That being (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: legOS
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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