Hi,
On 2/2/06, WaxDragon waxdragon@gmail.com wrote:
I would think we should be much more concerned about "derivative works", or straight copyright violations (cut and paste of source code).
I agree. The only thing the DMCA does it take copyright violations from Civil to Criminal. This section is just further reinforcing what is known as "Fair Use" The standard is still the same for what is fair use and what is infringement. If you need it to operate in a compatible method and you can prove that then it should fall under fair use. Blatantly reversing for the sake of reversing when functions are publicly documented and there are third parties using the exported interface, jumps well past a small violation in to the realm of derivative work.
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