This is going way off topic from the original thread but still pertinent to cf-talk, licenses and how licenses work is an important thing for anyone using or producing software. I'd assume many folks on this list are producing software, Mike D can always correct me and push me to another HoF list :)
You do not own the program, according to most EULAs. Most EULAs outline you own the right to run the application and you own the output of an application. For example, assuming you own a legal copy of MS office, you do not own Microsoft Office's software. What you own is the right to run Microsoft Office's software on a single personal computer that you own. You also have full rights and ownership of documents produced and published with the software you are using. Common misconception in software industry is that you own the software, this is simply not true. Adam Haskell On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:25 AM, denstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Adam Haskell wrote: > > I won't say yes or no one way or another on the legality or really even > the > > morality but I will say this puts you in a compromising position for > > submitting work to any open source CFML engine. We've already had the > > discussion surrounding certain comments coming from the CF community > about > > viewing source code and decided that we will most likely never be accept > > code from folks that openly admit to these types of activities. An OS > > project can not risk even in the slightest taking compromised code. > > But if a friend of a friend submitted the code it would be cool? > > I'm glad that the legal battles have played out as they have, for the > most part, so far. Regarding source and whatnot. > > > I love the idea that I couldn't legally fix, or even diagnose a > problem, with something I own. Really I don't love that idea. > I love watching chefs do battle. That's for real. Void a warranty?, > sure, but go to jail for tearing the tags off? Lame! :-P > > There's this whole strange idea about ownership these days. > > Do you know that long ago, things went into the public domain faster > than they do now? Why has that changed? > > Oh well. > > That's good stuff to know, Adam. I guess we can debate the merit of > copyright and whatnot over on community or OT (assuming I sign up with > OT-- where I most likely belong|]). > > Guess any submissions I'd make would be suspect. > > Hopefully it takes more than just knowing about such things as > decompilers-- maybe poor Brad and anyone who read this thread is now > suspect... sorry folks. > > * Is decompilation legal? > > Yes, if restricted to legal uses in the section "Why is a Java > decompiler useful?" For the same reasons that one can photocopy a few > pages from a book, a developer may disassemble or decompile executable > content. We are protected by the notion of "fair-use". Reverse > engineering of an entire application and shiping under a different > name clearly violates both our license agreement with our end users, > and this notion of "fair-use". It is not our objective to see our tool > used in this manner. > > (I hope whoever I "decompiled" this from is ok with the excerpt!) LOL. > > I'm getting out of hand. Peace and potatoes! > > -- > Pick me up > ~ Mom and Dad Save the World > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307419 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
