True. It is followed immediately by a clarification that local laws take precedence, and I guess it's still sufficient to cover the trade secret side of things. Licenses that have to apply internationally are tricky :)
Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Jan Claeys<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 11/10/2014 17:33 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Call for information - What assumptions can I make about Unix users' access to Windows? Steve Dower schreef op ma 10-11-2014 om 16:35 [+0000]: > > * Forbidding reverse-engineering of the OS to see how it behaves. > > Yeah, I doubt that restriction is moving anywhere. It's standard for > closed-source software, and as I understand it's intended to legally > protect trade secrets and patents (i.e. "we tried our hardest to keep > this a trade secret"). I've never heard of anyone being pursued for > doing it though, except to be offered a job working on Windows :) FWIW: that statement is illegal and thus void in e.g. the EU (and I thought even the USA?). That's probably why it didn't get pursued often recently... ;) -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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