On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Given that Mr. Wontshare's client represents only a small investment of > effort, "refuses to port" doesn't sound like much of a problem.
I meant to say relatively small investment; sorry. Even simple applications can be hard to rewrite though. Especially, if Mr. Wontshare is evil and uses encrypted traffic protected by good old DRM. > Mr. Wontshare (or someone else) puts your library behind a simply api > and then builds some application which uses that api, and yet refuses > to release his code. I am aware of that, this is why none of my suggested remedies were: don't make a simple API. > Someone works with the ecc concepts behind your code and reimplements > them in some proprietary code base. I am perfectly fine with this. If they put in the effort to write it themselves, all power to them. I just don't want people who don't share to freeload off my work. I personally hate any kind of algorithm patent, so I wouldn't opt for that solution. I just included it as an option for completeness. -- Wesley W. Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
