From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:01:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:01:43 -0500 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:58567 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:01:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:11:27 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Larry McVoy , Rik van Riel , Jamie Lokier , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0 Message-ID: <20030213211127.GG20159@fs.tum.de> References: <20030206021029.GW19678@dualathlon.random> <20030213024751.GA14016@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk> <20030213161337.GA9654@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030213161337.GA9654@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:13:37AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: >... > We'd view reverse engineering the protocol as falling under the "you're > working on a competing implementation". >... If a clause in a license forbids a licensee to use or decompile the program to gather the information needed for independendly developed programs to interoperate with this program current German copyright law says that this clause is void in Germany. :-) > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed