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SubjectRe: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software?


On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Oh. In europe our laws are pretty clear about this. No matter what the
> licence is that that comes with the product, you have the right to
> reverse engineer the product for the purpose of making something
> compatible with the product.
>
> Note that you may not be allowed to reverse engineer for the purpose
> of making a cometing product.

You are allowed to reverse engineer the product, write an interface
docs AND make it public. And anyone else is free to make a competing
product based solely on the docs.

tegla



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