Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 08:15:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: European copyright comment translation Message-ID: <199505031215.IAA03028@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <9505022214.AA09249@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 04:14:03 pm
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Terry Lambert writes: > > > > > Kurze Bemerkung: soweit ich weiss enthaelt die Eur. Urheberrechts-Direktive > > spezielle Klauseln die das reverse engineering zum herausfinden von > > Schnittstellen moglich machen. > > > > Gruss > > > > Christoph Weber-Fahr > > > > I'm sorry; my German isn't what it used to be. > > "So it is; the EEC directive special clause regarding the reverse > engineering <?> of <?> <?il>legal". > > Clearly, I would make a good translator for toy assembly instructions. > > 8-). > > Someone have a translation? I'm missing the most important clause that > would tell me if he's claiming it's legal or illegal... "A quick observation: As far as I know, the European copyright rules include a special provision to permit reverse engineering when it is not possible to determine the interfaces any other way." Peter (translating better than orginating) -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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