Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian Message-ID: <199505022150.OAA09297@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9505022047.aa02277@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de> from "weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de" at May 2, 95 08:47:14 pm
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> Hallo, > > In list.freebsd-hackers you write: > > >Thanks for enlightening this, Terry. I've really been under the > >impression that it was beyond legality in US to disassemble some- > >thing (and i will yet have to check it again -- but it's still my > >believe for the german situation). > > Kurze Bemerkung: soweit ich weiss enthaelt die Eur. Urheberrechts-Direktive > spezielle Klauseln die das reverse engineering zum herausfinden von Yes, a lot of the big guys called it "The Pirate Directive" for that reason. It's perfectly plain: if you cannot get information about an interface by other means, you can disassemble code to find the information. Notice the use of the word "interface", it allows this >ONLY< for interfaces, and >NOT< for anything else. Now, $64000 question: what is an interface ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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