Allan Wind wrote: > 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? Yes. In Germany, the law says it's legal "if it is necessary for interoperability". AFAIK the DMCA contains a similar clause. > Does the license not usually contain verbage to bar to you from > using that option? Yes, but in most cases, the end user didn't legally agree to the license, and the law says such a clause is invalid anyway. Clemens
