From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 23 23:10:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11327 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11320 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.6/8.7.3) id JAA02186; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:10:29 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:10:29 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <199707240610.JAA02186@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots 'o PCI slots In-Reply-To: <199707232244.PAA29632@george.arc.nasa.gov> References: <199707232244.PAA29632@george.arc.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov writes: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I don't think it's possible for it to be illegal to write code > > for hardware you own. > > I always thought that reverse-engineering was generally protected > in the U.S. (but not in all countries). Increasingly, however, > I am noticing shrink-wrapped licenses that say something to the > effect that by opening the package, I am agreeing not to reverse- > engineer anything inside the package. Is this legally binding > in the U.S. and/or other countries? > I only know for sure for Finland but I think it's non-binding in most European countries. Pete