Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Have you heard of the term "contributory infringement"? It means you're
helping someone else break copyright law.
Wouldn't somebody need to distribute the software to be in violation of
copyright law?
If I in legal and fully-licensed manner install a program on my PC
Good news everyone!
This has become a non-issue, at least in the next version of flash
player[1].
Thanks again for all your input!
[1] http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/curl_tradeoffs.html
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Jim Ramsay
Gentoo Developer (rox/fluxbox/gkrellm)
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On 21:07 Wed 20 Aug , Richard Freeman wrote:
> Gentoo distributes ebuilds - which are not the property of Adobe and are
> not derivative works of any of Adobe's software. A user who executes an
> ebuild might obtain a copy of an Adobe product that Adobe distributes. A
> user who executes
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2.5.1 You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works
> based upon the Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile,
> disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the
> Software except
Jim Ramsay wrote:
2.5.1 You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works
based upon the Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the
Software...
Anyone care to weigh in, lawyer or not?
Obviously I'm not
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:10:18 -0400
Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IANAL, but the following line is critical:
> it is essential to do so in order to
> achieve operability of the Software with another software program, and
> you have first requested Adobe to provide the information necessary
IANAL, and I'm sure most of us aren't either, but I would appreciate
some opinions on Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/234542 and whether the
binary patch proposed there conflicts with section 2.5.1 of the license
agreement from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/Reader_Player_WWEULA-Combi
