Date: Tue, 2 May 95 16:14:03 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian Message-ID: <9505022214.AA09249@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9505022047.aa02277@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de> from "weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de" at May 2, 95 08:47:14 pm
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> 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 > I'm sorry; my German isn't what it used to be. "So it is; the EEC directive special clause regarding the reverse engineering <?> of <?> <?il>legal". Clearly, I would make a good translator for toy assembly instructions. 8-). Someone have a translation? I'm missing the most important clause that would tell me if he's claiming it's legal or illegal... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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