Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:17:33 -0500 |
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:57, Larry McVoy wrote: [snip > > In other words, reverse engineering is ok if the product doesn't > provide access to your data, we do that already, poof, no reverse > engineering allowed. So it's illegal to reverse engineer BK.
Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK...
Even though the data is still ASCII, the interrelationships between the parts of the data is still "data". And extracting/viewing that would require the reverse enginnering. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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