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Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Le jeu 13/02/2003 ? 17:13, Larry McVoy a ?crit :

> We'd view reverse engineering the protocol as falling under the "you're
> working on a competing implementation".  
> 
> The general message is that you are free to use BK but you aren't free
> to use BK in any way which could hurt the business which produces BK.

If this kind of rule was enforced, lots of drivers wouldn't have
existed. You can't do much against reverse engineering.

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