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Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...
As any GNU program must come with source it's hard for you to prove you
haven't seen the source (same thing happend with BSD and Sun).
What you are talking about is RE of binaries that are not released with
thier code or as people suggested before an hardware that does not come
with the plans.
And for who ever wrote before about it yea it was compag who RE ibm's
chips
ll&P
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
| EL>> The only thing you can do is reserve engineer the code (which is not
| EL>> really hard when you have the source) and write it again.
|
| No, it won't do. It will be still "work based on". You should do it
| clean-room. It means, if you saw the code, you are already in trobule -
| you are contaminated. IANAL, but this is how GPL wording seems to me. At
| least, it's risky, even if a good (in lawyer's meaning of the word) lawyer
| could try and get one out of it.
|
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| phone +972-3-9316425 /\ JRRT LotR.
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