Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:39:33 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. |
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote: > > > BK already provides more than enough in the way of > > interoperability, both on the way in and on the way out. It's > > trivial to get your data out of BK as well as your metadata. It's > > a small perl script to get all the info out and plop it into some > > other system, we're much better about that than any free or > > commercial system. > > And MS Word allows to export data in plain text or html.
Which is a lossy export. Of course reverse engineering of Word is allowed, you didn't get all your data. You can get *all* of your data out of BK, by definition. BK can start with the data it exports and rebuild the revision history. So can you. So you are needlessly arguing.
> This is exactly the same. As long as there is a data format or a > protocol involved, European laws allow users to reverse engineer it, > to be able to create another program using the same format and > protocols.
Really? Show me that law please. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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