Quote Originally Posted by arcticdog View Post
First of all Victor, I do agree with you that this would normally be a copyright and IP infringement.

However, the point is, OUYA has muddied the waters here yet again with talk of "open" and being "hackable". The kickstarter not only mentions mods and peripheral creation, it outright says "we'll give you the hardware design". This depends on how "give" is interpreted. It could be interpreted as a good faith kind of thing with an implied license.

Whatever recourse OUYA takes ends up being another black eye in some way. They'll be the evil corp who's picking on the little guy. Or that they somehow "lied" again based on a vague set of rules and guidelines.

I did read your post artic, but your making it into something it is not. They say, do you want our HW design? <- Question, then go on and say let us know and we may give you permission. There is nothing in that that says you have the right to rebrand and sell our HW. It explicitly says that if you want it, ask us , and we MAY GIVE YOU PERMISSION.

The thing to note in all this is that these guys may actually have permission, if that's the case it's fine. But I think Ouya should be aware of it, and if they don't have permission , action should be taken by Ouya. Perhaps ED can let his Ouya contact know so this can be handled in a proper way.