Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272053AbTGYNCr (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:02:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272054AbTGYNCr (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:02:47 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:2557 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272053AbTGYNCq (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:02:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: Larry McVoy , Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:17:33 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03072508173301.16381@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 19 On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:57, Larry McVoy wrote: [snip > > In other words, reverse engineering is ok if the product doesn't > provide access to your data, we do that already, poof, no reverse > engineering allowed. So it's illegal to reverse engineer BK. Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK... Even though the data is still ASCII, the interrelationships between the parts of the data is still "data". And extracting/viewing that would require the reverse enginnering. - 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/