Richard Jenniss wrote:
>
>Does the DMCA have jurisdiction in Canada?
>Are there any laws preventing reverse engineering?
>
>It isn't so worse than this:
>
><snip>
>XVID is a leading open source MPEG-4 video codec, covered by the GNU General Public
>License (GNU GPL). At the beginning of July 2002, XVID learned that their codec was
>entirely stolen by Sigma Designs (the manufacturer of DXR3/H+ hardware MPEG2 decoder
>cards), and is distributed with the name REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec, under Sigma
>Designs' own license (not GPL).
></snip> @ http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/
>
If that is so the law that pertains is not the laws pertaining to
reverse engineering, its the copyright laws themselves. This would be a
violation of the GPL licence. This would earn the wrath of Richard
Stallman and his legal team (one of the profs at the Columbia Law
school, His name is Eben Moglen). This is one of the reasons that noone
has taken on the GPL is that this guy is a heavy hitter in digital
copyright law.
