-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
W dniu 04.08.2014 o 13:58, Ian Jackson pisze:
> Mateusz Jończyk writes ("Legality of analysing DSDT table"):
>> I am working on some bug in Linux kernel that is probably somehow related
>> to ACPI. Would it be legal if a bug reporter in India sent me his DSDT
>> table and I would then decompile and analyse it?
>
> You seem to be in Poland. I think there is no problem with this in
> European Union law: AIUI reverse engineering for the purpose of
> compatibility is excluded from the copyright monopoly.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#cite_ref-34:
(EU Computer Program Directive)
"It has therefore to be considered that, in these limited circumstances only,
performance of the acts of reproduction and translation by or on behalf of a
person having a right to use a copy of the program is legitimate and
compatible with fair practice and must therefore be deemed not to require the
authorisation of the rightholder. "
The analysis would have to be done "by or on behalf of a person having a right
to use a copy of the program"
It is unclear what precisely in legalese the phrase "on behalf of" means, but
I would be cautious:
http://www.translegal.com/legal-english-dictionary/act-on-behalf
(my national copyright law is similar in this respect)
> Also it seems very unlikely that anyone would want to complain.
Why? I don't think that there are a lot of trade secrets in the DSDT, but
there may be some (at least if the producent is paranoid).
> NB I am not a lawyer.
>
> Ian.
>
>
- --
Pozdrawiam,
Mateusz Jończyk
AEI, Informatyka, Semestr 3 Magisterskich, BDiIS
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: My public key: 0x2C64C488 on hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT5i7hAAoJELLT9LcsZMSIzHAH/1amKgBctQfVKrL0NKj2NJ27
97k5EMd2MXLWBohC0QCuaZ0QCIhDJY/ha+H+fh/Z6mlRqK5VBEPzpxnxxUWKtrWR
On8Yhpa2NLgBoADmMA4b407qY7AGMm0/SL3E3JwkPabDjBW5p0D0mnH6NY7Pi0Q5
M9LHXldMCHtadw2MeGxjaFDjHGiIUDzmvZNvkYDNBMdjG63ZzTFu1U3hUKKW7WDE
ysDRbDl+dYuh//nVhGyzgo6R5pzt1rdznlBKzHpsfWgQW4JHm1niWZGpfigZ+Nv6
GHGU6Us2WFggOgHcmNw9kUUL0hqsu96jyEXYaNafzTnReNuE4SGFnv8vRjcHSXo=
=clPo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53e62ee2.2080...@o2.pl
