Assuming the book is legally published with the source code belonging to the author, or proper permissions obtained, reading a book should not be a problem. Otherwise, college courses would also be illegal. Unless that is what people like SCO want.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Azerail Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cisco's stolen code On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote: > Brian: I will give you another good reason to not go near the stolen code. > If you EVER want to work on any project that is even remotely related to > routers, or routing or anything else that Cisco equipment can do, you can > not have touched any of the stolen code, or your code will be suspect. > (Your accounting package has queues? Cisco IOS has queues (I assume), you > must have copied it.) Even if your writing the code entirely from scratch, > because you have seen the stolen code, you may be suspect. Is it unfair? > Definitely. But this is why the GNU people emphasize staying away from any > licensed source code. So much for reading a book on code then. How sad. Azerail -- "All great truths begin as blasphemies" -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html ***************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. ***************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
