On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 17:27, Richard Jenniss wrote:
> 
> 
> Does the DMCA have jurisdiction in Canada?

No, that's an American law.

> Are there any laws preventing reverse engineering?

Sorry, I'm not a lawyer :-)

> 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/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Reply via email to