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Article #825EEC and software rights
From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 11:00
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PYR.SWAN.AC.UK!iiitac From: iiitac@PYR.SWAN.AC.UK (Alan Cox) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: EEC and software rights Message-ID: <19020.9209021100@pyr.swan.ac.uk> Date: 2 Sep 92 11:00:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 16