From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 14:16:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA16110 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 14:16:19 -0700 Received: from noc.BelWue.DE (root@noc.BelWue.DE [129.143.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA16018 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 14:14:37 -0700 From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Received: from uni-kl.de (stepsun.uni-kl.de) by noc.BelWue.DE with SMTP id AA08828 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for <@noc.belwue.de:hackers@freebsd.org>); Tue, 2 May 1995 23:14:19 +0200 Received: from sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de by stepsun.uni-kl.de id aa15697; 2 May 95 20:47 MET DST To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers References: <9504211708.AA03664@cs.weber.edu> <199504231623.SAA01390@jette.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 2 May 95 20:47:14 MET DST Message-Id: <9505022047.aa02277@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hallo, In list.freebsd-hackers you write: >Thanks for enlightening this, Terry. I've really been under the >impression that it was beyond legality in US to disassemble some- >thing (and i will yet have to check it again -- but it's still my >believe for the german situation). Kurze Bemerkung: soweit ich weiss enthaelt die Eur. Urheberrechts-Direktive spezielle Klauseln die das reverse engineering zum herausfinden von Schnittstellen moglich machen. Gruss Christoph Weber-Fahr -- Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049 Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern -------------------------- My personal opinion only ---------------------