packaging reverse engineered code when an EULA forbids this

2014-06-03 Thread Julian Taylor
hi, I was asked by ftp-masters to clarify the status of some files in the scipy package [0] The files are are simple serialized numeric arrays created by the proprietary program IDL. They are used as testcases for a reverse engineered implementation the de/serialization in the python scipy

Re: packaging reverse engineered code when an EULA forbids this

2014-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Julian, On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:21:08PM +0200, Julian Taylor wrote: hi, I was asked by ftp-masters to clarify the status of some files in the scipy package [0] The files are are simple serialized numeric arrays created by the proprietary program IDL. They are used as testcases for a

Re: packaging reverse engineered code when an EULA forbids this

2014-06-03 Thread Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr
Julian Taylor jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com writes: The issue seems to be that reverse engineering is not allowed by IDL's EULA as the files contain following header: IDL Save/Restore files embody unpublished proprietary information about the IDL program. Reverse engineering of this file