From: "Matthew D. Pitts" <mpitts@suite224.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:02:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c2d3ee$b9064bf0$0100a8c0@pcs686> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030213225621.GA17508@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk
Jamie.
>
> Someone may copy and use your software _without_ agreeing to the license.
>
> Then you can sue them for breach of copyright.
>
> You will win, unless their copying was fair use.
>
> Reverse engineering for interoperability is a form of fair use in many
> countries, including Germany and the UK.
>
> Draw your own conclusion :)
That particular line of reasoning is even included in the infamous DMCA here
in the US... But the courts have ruled in favor of the MPAA with regards to
attempts to LEGALLY reverse-engineer CSS.
Daw your own conclusion...
Matthew D. Pitts
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-14 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-06 2:10 openbkweb-0.0 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-06 2:34 ` openbkweb-0.0 Dave Jones
2003-02-06 3:09 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-06 4:23 ` openbkweb-0.0 Ben Collins
2003-02-06 4:37 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-06 6:02 ` openbkweb-0.0 Willy Tarreau
2003-02-06 6:14 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-06 14:23 ` openbkweb-0.0 Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-13 2:47 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-13 11:55 ` openbkweb-0.0 Rik van Riel
2003-02-13 16:13 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-13 16:23 ` openbkweb-0.0 Xavier Bestel
2003-02-13 16:46 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-13 16:56 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-13 21:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 Adrian Bunk
2003-02-13 21:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 Robert Love
2003-02-14 12:59 ` openbkweb-0.0 Xavier Bestel
2003-02-13 22:05 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-13 22:56 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-14 6:02 ` Matthew D. Pitts [this message]
2003-02-14 6:30 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-14 14:41 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-14 13:54 ` openbkweb-0.0 Matthew D. Pitts
2003-02-14 15:30 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-14 15:45 ` openbkweb-0.0 Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-14 16:56 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-14 16:47 ` openbkweb-0.0 Tomas Szepe
2003-02-14 16:50 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-14 17:09 ` openbkweb-0.0 Tomas Szepe
2003-02-14 17:24 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 11:42 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-02-15 14:42 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrew Walrond
[not found] ` <1045342539.5130.5.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <3E4F7E20.30905@walrond.org>
2003-02-16 20:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-02-16 20:23 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-16 21:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-02-16 21:48 ` ADSL vs Leased line (was: Re: openbkweb-0.0) John Bradford
2003-02-17 10:13 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-02-17 11:00 ` John Bradford
2003-02-17 11:46 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-02-17 12:00 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 0:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-15 0:52 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 0:56 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-15 1:50 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-15 1:01 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-15 2:00 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 2:41 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 3:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 3:30 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 5:00 ` openbkweb-0.0 Aggelos Economopoulos
2003-02-15 5:32 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 7:24 ` openbkweb-0.0 Aggelos Economopoulos
2003-02-15 6:20 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 7:27 ` openbkweb-0.0 Aggelos Economopoulos
2003-02-15 2:13 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-15 8:02 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 11:17 ` openbkweb-0.0 Pavel Janík
2003-02-14 20:31 ` openbkweb-0.0 Adrian Bunk
2003-02-14 22:02 ` openbkweb-0.0 Thomas Molina
2003-02-15 0:39 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 16:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-15 21:31 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-19 9:57 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-19 10:43 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-19 10:51 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-16 21:03 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-02-19 9:54 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-14 23:45 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-14 23:57 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 0:45 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 1:05 ` openbkweb-0.0 Davide Libenzi
2003-02-15 1:13 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-15 1:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-15 1:29 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-15 1:40 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-15 1:35 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-15 7:36 ` openbkweb-0.0 Adrian Bunk
2003-02-15 9:46 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-15 11:47 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-02-15 11:50 ` openbkweb-0.0 Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 12:07 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jörn Engel
2003-02-15 16:44 ` openbkweb-0.0 Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 12:10 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-02-15 16:58 ` openbkweb-0.0 Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-16 20:26 ` openbkweb-0.0 Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-02-16 21:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Jasen
2003-02-18 17:41 ` openbkweb-0.0 Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 17:44 ` openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Pitre
2003-02-15 18:12 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 20:44 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-15 20:54 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-16 4:08 ` openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Pitre
2003-02-16 5:18 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-16 5:35 ` openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Pitre
2003-02-16 22:34 ` openbkweb-0.0 Pavel Machek
2003-02-17 4:31 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jamie Lokier
2003-02-17 14:50 ` openbkweb-0.0 Rik van Riel
2003-02-18 22:34 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Lang
2003-02-19 8:31 ` openbkweb-0.0 Pavel Janík
2003-02-19 15:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 Paul Fulghum
2003-02-19 15:16 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-19 15:28 ` openbkweb-0.0 Pavel Machek
2003-02-19 15:47 ` openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Pitre
2003-02-15 21:56 ` openbkweb-0.0 Davide Libenzi
2003-02-15 21:52 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-15 22:04 ` openbkweb-0.0 Davide Libenzi
2003-02-15 22:11 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-15 22:24 ` openbkweb-0.0 Andrew Morton
2003-02-15 22:44 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 0:15 ` openbkweb-0.0 Matt Reppert
2003-02-16 0:46 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 0:55 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 3:23 ` openbkweb-0.0 Larry McVoy
2003-02-16 5:22 ` openbkweb-0.0 Alan Cox
2003-02-16 11:08 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 11:22 ` openbkweb-0.0 David Woodhouse
2003-02-16 11:50 ` openbkweb-0.0 John Bradford
2003-02-16 9:58 ` openbkweb-0.0 Filip Van Raemdonck
2003-02-16 14:42 ` openbkweb-0.0 Gaël Le Mignot
2003-02-16 16:27 ` openbkweb-0.0 Jörn Engel
2003-02-16 22:56 ` bk2cvs [was Re: openbkweb-0.0] Pavel Machek
2003-02-18 0:19 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-18 11:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-18 17:19 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-14 20:28 ` openbkweb-0.0 Adrian Bunk
2003-02-14 20:35 ` openbkweb-0.0 nick
2003-02-15 0:17 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
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2003-02-15 19:12 openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Mailhot
2003-02-15 20:42 ` openbkweb-0.0 Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-02-16 10:36 ` openbkweb-0.0 Nicolas Mailhot
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