law is big and as complex as humanity because its how societies operate, can you do some research on your concerns, theres a lot of amazing nuances and everyone can benefit from grounding concerns against applicable statutes and case law so we can be more precise?
eg reverse engineering … at the compatibility level rather than code theft level is like the definition of fair use. otherwise implementing a reader writer for a custom commercial file format would actually be illegal instead of prtected some wonderful examples include wine/reactos for windows os stuff, and haiku for beos. and literally as mentioned before: google v oracle is literally about when is compatible imples fsir use for jvm vs dalvik on android On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 1:50 PM Jaro Reinders via ghc-devs < [email protected]> wrote: > Also, we can consider a case much closer to software: reverse engineering. > Sometimes reverse engineering is done through the elaborate clean-room > process. > Why would people do that if just changing the language (so not using > assembly, > I guess) would be enough to avoid copyright problems? > > On 9/1/26 19:41, Jaro Reinders 'j.s.reinders at posteo.net' wrote: > >> building dimilar code for a similar task in a > >> different language is definitely not infringing unless its also > copying all > >> the text from the source application like some sort of text rpg. > > What if we compare this to literature? Surely a translation of a book > into > > another language is still considered a derivative work, even if it > reuses none > > of the “literal text”. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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