From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 10:29:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA06216 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:29:37 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06210 for ; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:29:33 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id IAA03028; Wed, 3 May 1995 08:15:05 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199505031215.IAA03028@hda.com> Subject: European copyright comment translation To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 08:15:05 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505022214.AA09249@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 04:14:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1061 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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