Subject:
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RE: legOS
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Dec 1998 02:24:01 GMT
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Original-From:
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Eric Hodges <eric.hodges@platinum.com#nospam#>
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I've read that it is illegal to ship PGP in source form, though. But this
is a very different issue, dealing with a munitions and not copyright law
per se. And all of this has little to do with Lego robots.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jasper Janssen [SMTP:janssenjasper@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 4:01 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: RE: legOS
However, the US export limitations _are_ different. PGP is shipped to
europe by printing the source in very large books, that are then OCRed
in and compiled (at least, that's the official story :) )
Could be the difference is in the fact that it's source and not binary,
tho.
Jasper
> 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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