On 7 Dec 99, at 23:10, Richard Makin wrote: > It's an interesting situation, because in countries like Poland you are > explicitly granted with the right to deasemble the program, even if ELA > states the opposite - the Polish law overrules it.
I am a Czech lawyer (Czech republic is neighbor to Poland) working in IS/IT law, so I know very exactly, that what Richard has written is less than full truth. According to the EU directives (and subsequnetly many Easter European legal provisions) user is allowed to dissasemlbe program, but _only_ for making connectivity with other programs and unless he is not able to get information from other sources. Therefore, he is mostly out of luck, because in tons of documentation you have very often (I am talking about serious :-) stuff like SAP, Oracle etc. -- not M$ crap) all possible documentation on connectivity included (mainly because of this EU directive, BTW). Have a nice day Matthew