From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 26 23:06:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EF037B401 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B1843FAF for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1AEE4526D5; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:36:21 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:36:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20030727060620.GQ45069@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030726002537.B19390@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20030726101853.O2874@catalyst.chemikals.org> <20030726.103846.20535602.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030726.110040.81570681.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dO6Thh8T/cwyDjv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030726.110040.81570681.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:06:27 -0000 --dO6Thh8T/cwyDjv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:00:40 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030726.103846.20535602.imp@bsdimp.com> > "M. Warner Losh" writes: >> The reason I keep saying that is that nobody knows for sure. Nobody >> has reverse engineered anything, got sued and won (or lost). Just > > However, there are one or two cases that are close to relevant working > their ways through the courts. Since they are in different districts, > the answer is different depending on where you live in the US. Or *whether* you live in the US. There's a very good reason nobody's ever been sued for reverse engineering in Australia: it's not illegal (which may be a different statement from saying "it's legal"). That gets back to the original question: is it legal to use reverse engineered software in the USA? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --dO6Thh8T/cwyDjv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/I2vcIubykFB6QiMRAin0AJ9SQbKCixB+F6EKjMH4PC2gGxBhBACfYnj0 9cjQ+fSYZCCIZ6xg6xh9Nu8= =5t8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dO6Thh8T/cwyDjv9--