Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:23:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian Message-ID: <199504231623.SAA01390@jette.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9504211708.AA03664@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 21, 95 11:08:42 am
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> 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).
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