From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 23:35:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02685 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:35:31 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02577 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:33:11 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04987; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA28621 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:33:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA18119 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 May 1995 07:50:40 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505030550.HAA18119@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 07:50:40 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <9505022214.AA09249@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 04:14:03 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 669 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Kurze Bemerkung: soweit ich weiss enthaelt die Eur. Urheberrechts-Direktive > > spezielle Klauseln die das reverse engineering zum herausfinden von > > Schnittstellen moglich machen. > > "So it is; the EEC directive special clause regarding the reverse > engineering of legal". ``AFAIK, the EEC directive on copyright contains a special clause allowing the reverse engineering with the intention to find out something about interfaces.'' Poul's german seems to be better. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)