Hi, Believe me Apple will persue legal action.
Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 11:35 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote: > I think folks don't need to worry about the preverbal ruler slap on > the wrist. The iPod was heavily modded, and the iPhone was even > hacked to accept other service providers. At this time I've never > heard of Apple pursuing legal action. In fact with the iPod hacks, > most are now incorporated into the product and led to the > application install features of the touch and iPhone. > > > Your Friend, > Sean Richards Tikkun > [email protected] > > <ADE_Logo_graysingle.png> > > On May 27, 2009, at 1:30 PM, louie wrote: > >> It's is my Mac and I payed for the software, I will do whant do >> with them. Now if I sell the results of my affords then I am at >> fault. >> >> On May 27, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I'll follow these rules because I might get into trouble if I >>> brake them, but I think it's very sad that it's not allowed to >>> modify Voiceover and other kind of software to fix bugs or to add >>> more features. If it was allowed, we could add a lot of nice >>> features to Voiceover... >>> Best regards >>> Søren Jensen >>> Mail & MSN: >>> [email protected] >>> Website: >>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>> >>> On 27/05/2009, at 19.34, A-Pro Studio wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> First of all, I am not posting this to "crash the party" for >>>> everyone - including myself, who would like their own >>>> localization of VoiceOver. But since none of us use to read all >>>> legal agreements included with all software we use, and since we >>>> might get into trouble by breaking such agreements, I would like >>>> to point those who are interested to the MacOSX legal agreements, >>>> especially the following paragraph: >>>> >>>> "The Mac OS X software license agreement does not allow >>>> modifications or derivative works to be made. >>>> >>>> Section 2F of current Leopard SLA: >>>> F. Except as and only to the extent permitted by applicable >>>> licensing terms governing use of the Open-Sourced Components, or >>>> by applicable law, you may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, >>>> disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple >>>> Software or any part thereof." >>>> >>>> Since VoiceOver Utility and other parts of VoiceOver is not Open >>>> Source, and people who might create, use and publish such >>>> localization versions of VoiceOver Utility will break the >>>> agreement and by this also break the law, this is an issue one >>>> should be aware of. >>>> For your info, and to avoid fellow listers to get in trouble. >>>> >>>> Have a wonderful day! >>>> >>>> John André >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> louie >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
