From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Open Source Licensing (was: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future) Date: 1999/02/09 Message-ID: <79pdpd$42v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442368165 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36ba730b.35540068@news.pacbell.net> <79eq4l$m1a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net> <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fvk4$npp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79nfkk$gpf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 09 13:38:55 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , minyard@acm.org wrote: > Right to reverse-engineer is guaranteed by law in the US > (Nintento vs Galoob). What the licenses say means > nothing. US Congress is working > to change that, but maybe they can be stopped. Corey, you are not a lawyer, so you should be very careful about making misleading statements like this. The case, which by the way is misspelled here, it is Nintendo vs Galoob, does not have anything like the general sweeping interpretation that you suggest. You need to study case law in much more detail, and I am afraid you will find it is more depressing than you think with respect to reverse engineering. Look for example at Microsoft vs Stacker, and many other cases (if you go into one of the standard legal search engines, and look for reverse engineering, you will pull up quite a few cases). You also need to study the recent legislation passed by congress, which also affects the situation here. It would be nice if you were right, but unfortunately, the situation with reverse engineering is not nearly so black and white as your wishful thinking would suggest. I certainly agree that this is an area requiring people to be educated, and to make their voices known. The situation is already much worse than you suppose here. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own