From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jap3003+response@ksu.edu
Cc: pgallen@randomlogic.com (Paul G. Allen), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] DMCA loop hole
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:09:08 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15Sn80-00044A-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010803165221.C11011@ksu.edu> from "Joseph Pingenot" at Aug 03, 2001 04:52:22 PM
> >From Paul G. Allen on Wednesday, 01 August, 2001:
> >To take another angle, those of us who actively look for exploits in software (because companies like M$ fail to do so themselves) risk being sued for doing so.
>
> Hrm. Very good point. However, under most EULA's I've seen, reverse
> engineering is already a no-no.
Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
software people doing the same)
In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
irrelevant
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-03 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 4:14 James Simmons
2001-08-01 5:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-01 5:49 ` James Simmons
2001-08-01 9:40 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-01 10:47 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-01 11:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-01 6:44 ` Joshua Jore
2001-08-01 13:54 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-01 17:18 ` [very OT] " Garett Spencley
2001-08-01 20:40 ` Justin Guyett
2001-08-02 0:14 ` [OT] " Paul G. Allen
2001-08-03 21:52 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-08-03 22:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-08-03 22:16 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-08-03 22:45 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-03 22:31 ` nick
2001-08-03 22:46 ` Alan Shutko
2001-08-03 23:45 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-03 22:51 ` Mike Harrold
2001-08-03 23:14 ` Dan Hollis
2001-08-04 0:51 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-04 1:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-11 12:10 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-14 7:07 ` Joshua b. Jore
2001-08-14 12:36 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-14 13:17 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-08-14 14:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-14 22:13 ` Paul G. Allen
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