Actually.., in the 5th circuit court district of the USA, it is legal to reverse
engineer software....such that you don't publish the code that you come up
with........
If this thread is to continue too much longer you may wish to move it to another
mailing-list ;^) Thanks....
robert w hall wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J. P. Morris
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:09:20 -0800
> >Willow Schlanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> "J.P.Morris" wrote:
> >> > One last point, there might be a clause in the EULA that forbids
> >> > reverse-engineering the product. In which case you would be obliged to
> >> > destroy all copies of the Windows you were using at the time, as your
> >> > license would be terminated and you would be using it illegally.
> >>
> >Whatever. The abhorrence of the Window XP copy protection suggests that most
> >people of technical merit have violated the EULA anyway ;-)
> >
> >As long as what you do doesn't *hurt* Wine, I'm sure most people don't care.
> >
> IIRC there's a difference between USA and EU law here, in that EU law
> allows you to reverse-engineer to get an adequate spec, if that's needed
> to ensure operability (IANAL!!!)
> Bob
> --
> robert w hall
