[free-sklyarov] Is the Open Source movement at risk from the DMCA?

Jon O . jono at microshaft.org
Wed Jul 25 14:43:31 PDT 2001


Please see below:


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> There's this also to ponder:
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> http://darwin.codefab.com/pipermail/random/2000-October/000439.html
> [Random] DMCA renders class-dump and jad illegal
> 
> ...[H]ow long until software is shoe horned under the "umbrella" of
> 
> If this WERE to occur, then it would also make emulators, debuggers, and
> disassemblers illegal, as well.
> 
> Ouch. $500,000 fine and/or five years in jail for "gdb
> some/random/program/you/did/not/write".
> 
> The list isn't taking  my msgs :-(
> 
> -- 
> http://www.free-sklyarov.org Free Dmitry




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