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Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
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Le jeu 13/02/2003 ? 22:18, Robert Love a ?crit :
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > If a clause in a license forbids a licensee to use or decompile the
> > program to gather the information needed for independendly developed
> > programs to interoperate with this program current German copyright law
> > says that this clause is void in Germany.  :-)
> 
> In which case you would have no right to use the program, not unlimited
> right. :)
> 
> But if this is true, I guess this raises a concern for German hackers
> (or perhaps everyone in the EU?).

At least in France, it just means this particular clause is void. This
doesn't prevent you (err .. me) from using it.

	Xav

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