On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:58:45PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-05-07 11:48:55 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Council Directive 91/250/EEC 14 May 1991; enacted in the UK as S.I. > >1992 > >No. 3233 > >does anyone here know what site can be used to obtain the document > >SI 1992 no 3233? > > It is on > http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19923233_en_1.htm > (where you may also find the original Act). It amends the Act, so it > should already be in the copy you have seen. The other part describes > the transition to the amended Act. > > Remember that UK copyright is quite different to some other EU states > laws. i notice in particular that 50B says you may not disclose what you decompile [to a higher level language] to any party except those involved in the decompilation process.
that is 1) _not_ in the 91/EC/250 directive that i saw three years ago 2) _not_ in the 91/EC/250 directive that i see now. that stops - dead - any benefit by the open source community to perform reverse engineering, because it explicitly says that you may not release the source code. ... regarding EU directives: are individual governments _allowed_ to go beyond the bounds of the EU directives (in the implementation into law)? l.
