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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 23:06:19 GMT
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Kekoa Proudfoot <kekoa@pixel.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 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.
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 that firmware is Software given what's written there.
And I should add that, I pointed this out as something in addition to what
others had pointed out were other reasons why reverse engineerng the RCX
was not going to be a big deal.
-Kekoa
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 | | 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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