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| Hello, I'm working with TinyVM, an implementation of the Java VM for the RCX. I'm am looking into expanding the LCD capabilities to display text characters, and I was hoping to copy some of the data and/or algorithm for displaying text. I am not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| The short answer is yes. The long answer... In general, free software licenses are self-compatible, meaning that you can take portions of software released under that license and create a different product using that same license. In fact, this is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) IIRC, legOS is MPL because Kekoa released some of his code under MPL, and so Markus released the rest under MPL in order to allow him to use that particular section of code. I believe that he once mentioned that his natural leanings would (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) I chose MPL because Dave did! :) It probably would have been GPL otherwise though. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) I guess its all my fault :) The choice between GPL and MPL was a tough one. My main worry with using GPL was that I have a lot of "generic" code from other projects in NQC. Now if had I released under GPL, and other people made improvements to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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