Subject: RE: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
Björn,
Regarding your question below, the gem graphics in the color image of
PluginJewels as seen at
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/PluginJewels/jewelscolor.png , are
identical to the graphics seen in versions of Bejeweled
development
Subject: Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
You wrote:
The game PluginJewels, for use on RockBox and available at
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginJewels, is a blatant
copyright violation of Bejeweled, the popular match-three game owned
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Björn Stenberg wrote:
I think we have the law on our side. The images are not copied from their game
and they aren't identical, as anyone can see. The only claim they could make
would be that our images are too similar to theirs and thus could be
considered plagiarism.
IMO ... he sortof realizes he basically has no case
Yeah:
if these color graphics do not actually appear
if the screenshot above is representative
If that is the case
If that is indeed the case
If it is not the case
Lots of 'if' statements, like he hasn't really done his homework. He'd
be
be
misconstrued as a sign of guilt if referenced to in the future.
-Original Message-
From: Keith Mosher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 April 2006 17:30
To: Rockbox development
Subject: Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
This sounds like a very reasonabe idea that should
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:44 PM
To: 'Rockbox development'
Subject: RE: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
Imho, a modification of the images at this point _may_ (and could
development
Subject: Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
This sounds like a very reasonabe idea that should make them unique beyond a
doubt but still keep the good gem designs intact.
On 4/18/06, ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing is that the existing
Adam wrote:
Might it be a good idea to email the author of Gweled ...
I believe Gweled already packaged with Ubuntu (and maybe other linux
distros).
Well, it's not installed by default with Ubuntu, but is available as a
downloadable package.
The description from Ubuntu's synaptic package
I think it might be beneficial to take the highest resolution version of each of our individual Jewels (the wonderful tiled BMP we've already got) and the screenshot he provided with, cut up his jewels to align with ours, and send that one image back with them exactly side by side so the
I'm not suggesting throwing them to the dogs, but really how much can we say either way when we didn't create the artwork in question? At the very least *we* should contact the creator of Gweled and let him know what's going on, in case he's next in line, and see if he has anything helpful. Though
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:32:42 +0200, Björn Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Regarding your question below, the gem graphics in the color image of
PluginJewels as seen at
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/PluginJewels/jewelscolor.png , are
identical to the graphics seen in versions of
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:31:57 +0200 (CEST), Daniel Stenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Björn Stenberg wrote:
I think we have the law on our side. The images are not copied from their game
and they aren't identical, as anyone can see. The only claim they could make
would be
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:49:16 +0200, RaeNye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Maybe add to the wiki and the manual a small-print notice that says
this game was NOT developed, published, or officially licensed by by PopCap
Games
There is no relationship between this game and the markedly inferior
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:04:39 -0400, bk wrote:
If it's just a matter of changing some colors around or something
else minor I don't see the harm if it means avoiding potentially
disasterous legal complications.
There's more to it.. IF you 'just change some colors around' you basically
admit
Yeah, I agree that doing anything to change ours at the moment is pointless. We shouldn't just say Screw you or anything, but no steps/changes should be made to what we have until at least some more discussion has happened between Popcap and us.
On 4/18/06, Paul van der Heu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the only thing the guy cares about is the graphics why not
just:
A) thrown the problem at the Gwled author
and/or
B) Just change the shapes in some way
Problem is *gone* !?
If he wants to get stupid about IPR and S/w Patents etc. then let's give
hims a run for his money !?
BC
Yeah, I agree
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:44:41 -0700, Steve Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bluechip wrote:
If he wants to get stupid about IPR and S/w Patents etc. then let's give
hims a run for his money !?
Somebody mentioned small claims court. If it goes to court, this is a
copyright matter, so that means
@ Björn or anybody else concerned, has there been any further action in
this?
Christopher
Christopher Woods wrote:
@ Björn or anybody else concerned, has there been any further action in
this?
No. I will post to the list if/when anything happens.
--
Björn
Why not something along the lines of:
--
Dear mr Haas,
Please stop sending us unsolicited commercial e-mail messages or we will
be forced to take legal action.
--
I think it has more legal merit than his claim :-)
/Anders
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:21:27 +0200, Dominik Riebeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I just received the following mail today -- I guess because I recently
edited the wiki page (at least it shows me as the last editor of the
page up to now) and my mail address can be found on the wiki. I'm
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:39:48PM -0400, bk wrote:
How can they say there are copyright violations? Clearly none of the
code is theirs since the Rockbox code is open and their game is
proprietary, and the plugin author didn't copy any graphics, right?
There's no trademark violations any
Hi Dominik,
Can you get us the full mail headers? Just to make sure the message is
real? In some way this doesn't feel genuine to me...
Tomas
Dominik Riebeling wrote:
Hi all,
I just received the following mail today -- I guess because I recently
edited the wiki page (at least it shows me as
for domain of [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Subject: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
Hi,
Dominik Riebeling wrote:
sure, I'm appending the complete CnP'ed mail text (don't know how to
forward this message including headers as attachment with gmail).
Ok, looks good to me.
You can ask him to contact someone by phone, and explain his problem,
just to make sure he understands
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
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
In adversarial situations such as this, it is usually best to give as
little information as possible. You never know when your adversary can
find a way to turn something around and use it against you. For
example, your statement below can be viewed as an admission that you/we
*were*
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Date: Apr 14, 2006 11:18 PM
Subject: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dave Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mr. Riebeling:
The game PluginJewels, for use on RockBox and available at
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginJewels
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 21:39 -0400, bk wrote:
How can they say there are copyright violations? Clearly none of the
code is theirs since the Rockbox code is open and their game is
proprietary, and the plugin author didn't copy any graphics, right?
There's no trademark violations any more
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