Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:57:38 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: SteveB <admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com>, Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <3A4503B2.C0DE31A@bellatlantic.net> References: <NEBBIGOKKMNLOMOHMJNPAEMJCNAA.admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com> <000901c06be9$00910570$aa240018@cx443070b>
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Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings. > > United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f) > > My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the > software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the > software for the purpose of achiving interoperability. Therefore, if you > own a piece of hardware, and you have no driver for the hardware, or the I wonder, if this provision is overriden by the DMCCA (the new proposed and in some places adopted act on software copyrights) ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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