On 06/03/15 09:09, Reincke, Karsten wrote:
Why do I only say ‘very similar’ instead of ‘equal’. The problem with your
summary is this: you do not talk about the license text! Your term “combined
work” DOES NOT OCOUR in
The problem with your approach is that you do not talk about the spirit
Well, the provided text in the document does not appear to me to be
conclusive that permitting reverse engineering is not required from LGPL
users. There¹s interesting analysis of the wording but the real ³missing
step² for me would be that your analysis would actually hold up in a court
of law.
Nigel and others,
We needn't rely on some DT document to justify our reverse engineering. Here
is what EFF says we can do in the United States:
https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
Perhaps we can rely on their well-researched legal analysis for now. Someone
complained
Dear Mr. Tilly;
On a first glance, your mail seems to be clear an reasonable. Unfortunately you
are impeding the everyday work of those who want and must convince and support
their companies, employees and colleagues to use free software compliantly. Let
me explain, how your obstruction comes
Dear Larry
I have no doubt about your legal expertise and experience, but I think
generally speaking using something legally reverse-engineered in one
jurisdiction in another jurisdiction where that specific act of
reverse-engineering is illegal is at the minimum, problematic. This is
There is a significant problem with the abbreviated version that you
wish I had said. I believe your analysis is wrong when you concluded
that dynamic linking is enough to escape the reverse engineering
provision. It would therefore be a lie for me to say something like,
But indeed, this
Cindy Ooi wrote:
It also impose a moral hazard: If one simply has to do the reverse
engineering job
in a country that permits the type of reverse engineering in order to be
able to legally
use the result anywhere, then we are merely constrained by the highest common
factor
of all
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