At 1:40 PM +0100 23-03-00, Stringer wrote:
>I alo can't see how Kadak can get legally involved here unless there
>is either a contract (which there isn't), or one violates some general
>law such copyright or patent.
There is a contract, between you and Palm.
There is another contract, between Palm and Kadak.
Your contract with Palm says we support what's in the SDK. Palms contract
with Kadak says that kernel functions cannot be part of the SDK. Thus: you
cannot use Kadak functions in your own apps without special agreemeent.
Even if you were to obtain special agreement, you caould not reliably call
kernel functions from your own apps because the ROMs don't have any kernel
records to spare. The limit is hardcoded in when the ROM is built.
So, there is both a legal problem and a physical problem. Both can be
overcome, but most developers don't have the resources to do this. (The
ROM limit being the harder one, Kadak seems very willing to license their
software.)
Sorry.
--Bob
P.S. The analogy was just intended to show that you cannot legally do
things that you oviously can physically do. I'm also pretty sure you can't
show a DVD to a large audience at work even if it's free... it all depends
on what "for exhibition" means in Copyright law. But that's beside the
point.
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