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SubjectUDI Driver dissassembly (was Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software (fwd)
Does this mean that you in Europe could disassembler a binary, then modify
it so it reatins it's general function, email it to us americans modified
thus saving us the desparity of being prosecuted :) i think so.

Also, federal laws protect patent/copyright. It is *NOT* forbidden to
dissassemble a source. Take a system BIOS for instance, to replicate a
BIOS you would do (and it HAS been done) a complete dissassemble, then
write down EVERYTHING it does, BUT NO CODE (yes I am leaving out details)

Then give THAT to someone else, tehn that person may conjure a set of code
that does teh saem thing. Therefore you bypass patent laws :)

It's been done, and will continue to be done that way. Or mayeb we'll get
lucky and some smart europeans will derive all future UDI drivers for
linux based off commerical UDI binaries .. eiterh way we're goign to have
a whole lotta fun eh?

%--* ely

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> >
> > > Just imagine how EASY it would be to REENGINE a UDI driver written by a
> > > sucking vendor, which continuisly defeats sourcecode/docs realese!!!!!!!!
> > > It would be almost like having the most accurate doc's there in front of
> >
> > How? How are you going to do that with a binary-only driver? Enquiring
> > minds would like to know. (and before you suggest disassembling, it's
> > illegal)
>
> No it isn't! Here in Europe disassembling is *EXPLICITLY PERMITTED* by law
> in case there isn't otyher way to get doc's!
>
> Yeah the world isn't ruled by the US law :-).
>
> Marcin
> =========================================================================
> In real life: System Programmer at AIS AXON GmbH


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