-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
But there's nothing illegal about reverse engineering it. Unless perhaps you've signed a contract saying you wouldn't (did George Mason? Perhaps, if they have an EndNote license).
Initially, I agreed. But it appears that George Mason did sign a site- wide license agreement (see the paragraph labeled #12 at http://dltj.org/article/zotero-lawsuit-extracts/ ), and the license agreement explicitly prohibits reverse engineering (paragraph labeled #15). To the best of my layman's understanding of the legal system, contract law (the license agreement) trumps copyright and patent law.
I hope George Mason U is willing to stand up for Zotero. It's popular enough that hopefully they will.
They /may/ be. Paragraph #31 says that GMU referred the matter to outside counsel. I suppose we just need to watch and wait to see what happens.
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