Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271894AbTGRVu0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:50:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271900AbTGRVr4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:47:56 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:50266 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271894AbTGRVqv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:46:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper From: "Trever L. Adams" To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Richard Stallman , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1058563409.19511.74.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <20030718204405.GA658@work.bitmover.com> <1058563409.19511.74.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058565696.2479.40.camel@aurora.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-3) Date: 18 Jul 2003 18:01:37 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 17:23, Alan Cox wrote: > Actually your license is simply irrelevant in most of thre world. You > aren't allowed to forbid reverse engineering for interoperability. Well, here in the US the right to reverse engineer may be gone. It lost out in a recent case. Hopefully that isn't telling of the future and future court cases. Long live that right everywhere, even if the US sticks its legal head up a dark, dark tunnel. Trever -- "Love is friendship set on fire." -- French Proverb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/