On Monday 29 November 2004 10:51, Michal Kostrzewa wrote: > Dnia 29-11-2004, pon o godzinie 05:10 -0500, Allan Wind napisa?(a): > > On 2004-11-29T03:52:51-0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > James Courtier-Dutton reverse engineered the Audigy LS in a few days. > > > > Is reverse engineering legal? Does the license not usually contain > > verbage to bar to you from using that option? > > It depends of country's law. For instance in Poland, where I live, > reverse engineering is legal in some cases regardless of license > statements saying the opposite. Among this cases is creating compatible > applications when no available documentation exists. > I suppose there may be similar law in other countries. this is the situation throughout the EU. Edward Barrow Copyright Consultant edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ***Important: see http://www.copyweb.co.uk/email.htm for important information about the legal status of this email
