On Sunday 22 February 2009 16:40, Information Security wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as I know India doesn't have any equivalent law to the > >> DMCA, so there is nothing illegal in what you're doing. Since > >> you're reverse engineering the protocol and not the application > >> itself you should be > > > > I'm not sure they can even do that. There is no EULA that comes > > up before the dialer installation in any case. I also checked > > their terms of use and they too do not menion anything about a > > dialer.
India tends to follow the Brit model of Copyright and patent laws. One of the requirements is fair use. So reverse engineering would be definetly permitted. Besides I doubt SIFY will be suing anyone in a very long time. > Yes siddhesh you can reverse engineer & go ahead with the thing > that you are trying to do. Best of luck but do keep in mind that > after you are done you cant sell it to anyone but yes you can share > it with anyone that you wish to just like linux. Says who you cant sell. You are not copying their software (i presume). And software patents are illegal in India. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
