Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Adam
Exactly, they are not claiming any sort of trademark infringment, only copyright. There is absolutely no need to bring trademarks into this. >From Christopher Wood's earlier post it's clear that the only thing they could claim copyright infringment on would be "sufficient amount of literary or pic

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Ray Lambert
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* violating

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Jonathan Gordon
you should have also mentioned that it was once named bejewelled and changed very recenlty to jewled because u take copyright and trademark and stuff seriously.. On 16/04/06, Björn Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You wrote: > > The game PluginJewels, for use on RockBox and available at > > ht

RE: Manual

2006-04-15 Thread Mark Bright
cd my_manual ../tools/configure Select platform (ie 9 for H1x0) Select M for manual Make |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Romanov |Sent: 15 April 2006 20:05 |To: Rockbox development |Subject: Manual | |how to build manual from so

RE: Manual

2006-04-15 Thread Peter D'Hoye
Not that I've already built the manual myself, but I thought you had to select the manual with configure and then just make? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Romanov > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 9:05 PM > To: Rockbox develop

Manual

2006-04-15 Thread Anton Romanov
how to build manual from source? cause 'make manual' just says make[1]: Nothing to be done for `buildmanual'. --

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
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 by > my company, PopCap Games, Inc., of Seattle, Washington, USA. I am > writing to

RE: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Christopher Woods
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 man

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Stenberg
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

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Tomas Salfischberger
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

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Dominik Riebeling
Hi Tomas, On 4/15/06, Tomas Salfischberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... sure, I'm appending the complete CnP'ed mail text (don't know how to forward this message including

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Tomas Salfischberger
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

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Paul van der Heu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:21:27 +0200, Dominik Riebeling wrote: > I hope we can solve this issue pretty quickly. While game play is similar it is far from the same (and in fact some key features of the 'original' game play are not there), the code has not been copied, but is self-written without a

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Michiel van der Kolk
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 an

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Neon John
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.