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EEC and software rights

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 11:00
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The EEC law guarantees you the right to take someones software and
disassemble it for the purpose of making your own application compatible
with that software. it doesn't let you then go off and write books about
what you have found or write a clone - that still needs clean room
techniques. It does mean for example I can dissasemble a DOS driver
and use the info to write a unix driver for the same hardware or find
out how to call the driver myself so that I can use it directly from
an application.

It's actually very rarely an issue, but its a nice protection to have.

[I think thats exactly right, but I haven't been involved in anything
 but the software side for a while (thank Eris)]

Alan
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