In my house I have about a cubic metre of LEGO. This consists of a nucleus of LEGO pieces that were given to me for Christmas 1965, bits bought with my pocket money as a child, a whole lot I bought from a shop going out of business when I was 22, some given to my children, and some I found in a plastic bag next to a dustbin in Scotland (some people are just plain stupid).
My children and I often make things with these LEGO bits: whose constructions are they? Well: 1.the intellectual property rights are ours. 2. The bits from which the models are constructed belong to us. BUT, some of the pieces are not simple cubes, but all sorts of fancy, twiddly bits invented by LEGO employees. Presumably I am legally quite entitled to give away / sell my model of Alezander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia without the LEGO company slamming a 'cease and desist' order or somesuch on me. Presumably I can also market the design (while making it clear that it requires LEGO bits). Just to make things really awkward, I also have pieces from a toy set made in Malaysia that fit together with LEGO. Now I haven't a clue whether those Malaysian pieces are 'Original' or constitute a rip-off of LEGO. OK, OK . . . I also have Original install floppies for Hypercard 2.2.1 and so on. NOW the big question is, surely, how like LEGO Runtime Revolution and Metacard are? I have just had an e-mail from Jane Weidman, who works for Canonical (i.e. Ubuntu Linux) and she says I cannot release my EFL programs under a NU-type licence. This is getting a bit black-and-white again, and what is needed is a MIDDLE WAY - a licence (ideally authored under the supervision and approval of RR) that RR/MC authors can use when they chose to release their end products made with licenced versions of RR/MC into the FREE software arena. sincerely, Richmond __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
