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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] FriBID: Legal issues with reverse enginee
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Alex Fernandez |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] FriBID: Legal issues with reverse engineering |
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:46:30 +0100 |
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mario Castelán Castro
<address@hidden> wrote:
> November 11th 2009 for address@hidden subject
> "FriBID: Legal issues with reverse engineering"
>
> The author of that project says: "I've reverse-engineered the
> interface by studying the data that was sent through it and written a
> free client (that's FriBID).". I dobut if it is legal to publish the
> result of that reverse engeeniering. Someone knows about the matter?.
It basically depends on the intent. As the renowned legal corpus in
the Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality
So what is the purpose of FriBID?
Alex.