From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 20 8:44:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD9E37BBB1 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:44:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p20-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.85]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id BAA06653; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:44:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38B01918.DE26DBB3@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:40:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Doug Rabson , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? References: <20000220024926.B81021@rohrbach.de> <20000220160400.H79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > Well Doug, > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may > disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you > need to program the driver. > > For once, a cool law in Europe. The U.S. Supreme Court made this exactly ruling one or two weeks ago. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message