> Even if Macromedia made promises or statement on this list or elsewhere it > would mean nothing and you are quite right, they could pull the plug at any > time.
How so? Don't you think that Microsoft would have pulled the plug on projects like Wine, Samba, Mono, etc. a long time ago if it was that easy? As Pamela Jones wrote in the article Mike posted the link to, reverse engineering _is_ legal, as long as it is done for the sake of interoperability: "Both white box reverse engineering (decompiling the object code to reveal its structure and figure out the interface specifications for interoperability purposes) and black box reverse engineering (where you only look at a program's input and outputs) are legal normally in the US, if the goal is interoperability." [1] Other than that, I can see no grounds for any legal action at all - short of everyone's darling, the software patents, but that joker's for companies who have a failing business model and don't care about developers outright hating them at all. (*cough*SCO, forgent*cough*) cheers, till [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/134642/ _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
