I believe that’s called “free as in beer” not “free as in speech”
Scott is absolutely correct — in Galoob v Nintendo (1992) the supreme court established that users have a right to modify copyrighted works for their own use (but not necessarily re-distribtue them). This software appears to have no license, which means the author (Mr. Henry) is indeed allowed to seek copyright protection. As I said above, copyright protection does not mean that it is against the law to de-compile the source. I would advise Mr. Henry to seek the advice of a IP lawyer if he wants to properly protect his software. As well, it’s probably a good idea to include a license. As a programmer, I would never put an executable I couldn’t see the source of into my app. -Jason > On Dec 29, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Scott Ribe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Lou Henry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you feel the need to decompile the code even though >> WHAT is contained in it is not worth the trouble you are hereby formally >> instructed to: Cease and Desist. > > Bullshit. > >> Jackbox and the code in it are >> copyrighted. > > You seem to be a bit unclear on what exactly that means... > > -- > Scott Ribe > [email protected] > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9AE0B95D-1CBC-4B96-8F4B-EB05EC0779CB%40elevated-dev.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/08B093B9-F600-4C17-A3ED-00FEC631B5CB%40datatravels.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
