Re: [ros-dev] IP Policy

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

On 12/1/05, Ge van Geldorp <gvg(a)reactos.org> wrote:
>   I don't have a problem with reverse engineering
> per se, but what we fail to
>  do at the moment is use the information obtained from that in a clean room
>  manner. I.e. at the moment the same person that looks at the object code
>  also provides the ReactOS implementation. I think that's dangerous, I
>  believe most (court) cases where reverse engineering was found acceptable
>  were clean room cases. So I'd like to amend the IP policy with something
>  like:
>
>  If there is no other option than to reverse engineer/disassemble object
>  code, the person who reverse engineered the code shall put his findings in a
>  document describing the interface. That person can not implement the
>  corresponding code in ReactOS, implementation shall be done by a different
>  person (or group of persons), working only from the interface description.
>
>  We can then keep the document in svn so we can present an audit trail if
>  asked to produce one. 
Ok can we start a vote on this? We also need to hold a vote for
accepting the IP policy so I still think we should have something like

[] - Accept the IP Policy as it stands
[] - Accept the IP Policy with Amendment
[] - Discuss IP Policy further

If no choice gets more than 50% of a vote then we should remove option
that got the lowest number of votes.

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Steven Edwards - ReactOS and Wine developer

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