↪ 2015-08-23 Sun 14:48, Florian Weimer <[email protected]>: > > The license argument, however, is abject stupidity as security advice, > > and an excellent argument for software freedom. > > It's probably still true. I don't think there is a reverse > engineering exception for security research. Whether you have to > publicly rub it into the face of your customers is a different story, > of course.
Depending on what you do (because “reverse engineering” includes a lot of different kinds of methods), you are covered in Europe by an exception to copyright law (Directive 91/250/EEC) and any terms trying to negate you this possibility are void. The French translation of this directive even explcitly mentions security purposes since 2010. Note that in the US, the situation is different regarding what you can enforce or can't enforce in a contract regarding reverse engineering. -- Hugo Roy – Free Software Foundation Europe https://fsfe.org/about/roy Please use cryptography for email: see https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Merci d’utiliser la cryptographie pour l’email : voir https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/fr/
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