From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 10:29:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA02819 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 10:29:29 -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 KAA02813 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 10:29:21 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02570; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 19:29:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA09354 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 19:28:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by jette.heep.sax.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id SAA01390 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:23:50 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504231623.SAA01390@jette.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:23:47 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504211708.AA03664@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 21, 95 11:08:42 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de 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: 1012 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There was a recent court case where Microsoft won against Stacker on > the basis of drawing a distinction between "Reverse Engineering", > which is perfectly legal ain the US, and "Deep Reverse Engineering", > a term best spoken into a coffee can to get those Darth Vader-like > echoes. ... > I really urge that people look into cleanrooming before assuming that > the only place it can be done is a non-Berne signatory or non-Gatt > signatory country. > ... > I wouldn't have replied, but the message to which I'm responding > implies a limitation to where you are allowed to cleanroom which > simply does not exist. If people took this to heart, it would > artificially restrict the pool of talent that can be used for > cleanroom coding -- and that would be a bad thing. 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).