Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271972AbTGYJh6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271973AbTGYJh6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:37:58 -0400 Received: from smtp-105-friday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.105]:8973 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271972AbTGYJh5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:37:57 -0400 To: Larry McVoy Cc: Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. Mail-Copies-To: nobody References: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> From: kilobug@freesurf.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?Ga=EBl_Le_Mignot?=) Organization: HurdFr - http://hurdfr.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:56:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> (Larry McVoy's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:57:44 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 34 > BK already provides more than enough in the way of > interoperability, both on the way in and on the way out. It's > trivial to get your data out of BK as well as your metadata. It's > a small perl script to get all the info out and plop it into some > other system, we're much better about that than any free or > commercial system. And MS Word allows to export data in plain text or html. But it's still allowed to reverse MS Word to make a .doc import/export plugin for OpenOffice or Abiword. This is exactly the same. As long as there is a data format or a protocol involved, European laws allow users to reverse engineer it, to be able to create another program using the same format and protocols. All data formats and protocol should be publically available. This is absolute required for a full inter-operability, and to give to users the freedom of choice. If they are not, then European laws guarantee us that we are free to try to find out by ourselves. And I'm glad this law exists. -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - kilobug@nerim.net - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org - 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/