From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Open Source Licensing (was: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future)
Date: 1999/02/09
Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d83jz71f.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 79pdpd$42v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes:
> In article <m2btj4hbbs.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com>,
> 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.
I apologize for speaking out of line. You are correct, I am not a
lawyer and should be more careful about what I say.
My knowledge (reading articles and the like) is old in this area.
>
> 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 are correct. The reason you are reverse engineering matters, I
believe. And the method, too. Care should be taken. And it is
depressing.
>
> You also need to study the recent legislation passed by
> congress, which also affects the situation here.
This is true, and is also depressing.
Thank you for your response.
--
Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org
Work: minyard@nortelnetworks.com UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
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Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-31 0:00 Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-02-08 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-02-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Pointer Arithmetic (was: Wanted: Ada STL....) adam
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` adam
1999-02-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Brian Rogoff
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-03 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-08 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-06 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-08 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-08 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-07 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-08 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-08 0:00 ` Open Source Licensing (was: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future) dennison
1999-02-08 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future robert_dewar
1999-02-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-07 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <36ba730b.35540068@ <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
[not found] ` <79f24e$t14 <36BB4162.52FC6D9F@averstar.com>
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-09 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-08 0:00 ` John English
1999-02-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
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