On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:11, grumpy wrote: > > > > [2] IANAL, so I don't know whether such a fishing expedition > > is legal (you can acquire the code with this intent without > > going to court), but in practice it's hard to prevent anyway, > > and there's nothing really unfair about it. > I remember a talk I attended about Reverse Engineering > There are some well tested rules that you have to follow...but it is possible Perhaps you are confusing copyrights with patents. With patents it doesn't matter if you invent the same technique yourself with no exposure to the original - you still can't use it without a license from the owner. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list