> Hi Nicolas, > > >It might sound crazy, but I don't care about law :) > > > > > It doesn't sound crazy, it sounds irresponsible. Especially coming from > a figure that many in the community look up to. And, I am quite > convinced that (as much as you may like to believe that it is), it is > not true. We all live within a system of rules/laws and without certain > laws, we would have anarchy. It's not my intention to get into a > political discussion, but suffice it to say that every time you stop at > a red light or pay your taxes, you care about and abide by the law. Now > this doesn't mean that you should not oppose unjust laws, etc. but there > are ways of doing this (and it's quite possible that civil disobedience, > etc. are valid methods.) However, I don't believe that there is any > reason for over-reacting about anything at this point. And I don't > believe that it is an unrealistic expectation for all content on OSFlash > to be 100% legal. Unfortunately, perhaps, you do have to take pains > today to make sure that your software is legal (not you specifically, > but the general, royal "you") :)
Hi Aral. My sentence was not about laws in general. It was maybe a little strong statement so I hope it didn't feel like I'm an anarchist :) I don't call for civil disobedience either. My rant was just about the fact that since it's impossible for us (which are not lawyers) to get a definite answer to our legal questions, and since Macromedia is doing some FUD : we got fear and doubt on this thread, I was proposing exactly the same as you : that people must be responsible and act using morality. I think it applies quite good to reverse engineering : decompiling a software to stole some design secrets and make the same is immoral and illegal, while reverse engineering some file format or protocol in order to reach interoperability is fun, moral and legal.... at least in the EU (or it "looks" like). Don't worry I don't call for illegal contents on OSFlash :) Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
