I would agree also. I quote the US Copyright office (http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html),
----- The idea for a game is not protected by copyright. The same is true of the name or title given to the game and of the method or methods for playing it. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author's expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Some material prepared in connection with a game may be subject to copyright if it contains a sufficient amount of literary or pictorial expression. For example, the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable. ----- Imho, PopCap Games are once again trying to push their luck. They don't pester any of the other sites on the web that have Bejeweled clones (and sometimes, make a fair bit of money out of it, if it's an online gambling or 'skills-based' gameplay site). -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 April 2006 16:36 To: Rockbox development Subject: Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Tomas Salfischberger wrote: > You can ask him to contact someone by phone, and explain his problem, > just to make sure he understands what we do etc. I think Daniel or > Linus would be a good choise for that phonecall, or some native > English speaker with legal knowledge. (Do we have a lawyer in the > house? :-)) I would say that a fair and just response would be to kindly ask the person/company in what way we could possibly violate their copyright. We use no fragments of their product, and me knowingly they have no patent on the ideas (for those areas of the world where software patents would be valid). I think this is just an attempt to make us stop shipping Jewels, but without much legal backup. -- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
