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

Austin Hook marvin at qubit.computershop.calgary.ab.ca
Wed Jul 25 15:50:48 PDT 2001


On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Roger Kramer wrote:
> 1st another disclaimer: IANAL.
> From what I can divine from the legalese, the law explicitly ALLOWS reverse 
> engineering for the purpose of "achiev[ing] interoperability of an 
> independently created computer program." At least one of the authors of this 
> thing had at least one clue.
> 
> Still I think this is a great line of reasoning that ought to be pursued in 
> spite of this exemption.

How about for making making an inter-operable eBook reader?

Austin Hook





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