> It is not a technical issue, but a legal one. > > I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client > created by using "reverse engineering". > But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright > lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of > Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ > was ruled illegal. > He is sentenced 3 years, fine 1.2 million yuan. > > Ginn >
I don't want to stray too far, but I can see some dire consequences of engineers giving "legal" opinions (I am saying this as a practicing intellectual property attorney--for almost three decades). :-) But the main issue is, practically speaking, OS2010.03 is coming out in just little over a month, and most of us outsiders still don't have any idea of what or how it may look like. I am sure we all have confidence that the final product will come out in flying colors, but I don't know how the current situation may impact the planners regarding the "Open" portion of "OpenSolaris"? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
