[sane-devel] Legal Aspects

2006-03-28 Thread Lauri Pirttiaho
Hello, The reverse engineering is in a way a confusing issue because there are two things that presumably affect it. On the one hand there are the click-by licenses and then there is the copyright law. Now, in general, if privately made agreement is in contradiction with the law, then the law ov

[sane-devel] Legal Aspects

2006-03-28 Thread Daniel Glöckner
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:46:18PM +, Ullrich Sigwanz wrote: > QUESTION: Is reverse engineering of hardware protocols legal at all? I suppose in your case this often cited german law applies as well: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__69e.html Daniel

[sane-devel] Legal Aspects

2006-03-28 Thread Ullrich Sigwanz
Hi all, This is a question that I have in my back head for years and which I tried to let it be there forever. But the more devices I debug hardware-wise, the more I am scared. QUESTION: Is reverse engineering of hardware protocols legal at all? EPKOWA (e.g.) state in their License agreement,