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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:40:56 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?
Message-ID:  <38B01918.DE26DBB3@newsguy.com>
References:  <20000220024926.B81021@rohrbach.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201208260.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <20000220160400.H79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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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.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org

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