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

[Jon O .]

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
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> ...[H]ow long until software is shoe horned under the "umbrella" of
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> If this WERE to occur, then it would also make emulators, debuggers, and
> disassemblers illegal, as well.
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> Ouch. $500,000 fine and/or five years in jail for "gdb
> some/random/program/you/did/not/write".
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> The list isn't taking  my msgs :-(
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