> I am not familar enough with these projects to know what their issues > might or might not be. But just to be clear, I believe the issue of > whether or not protocols can be reverse engineered is settled law.
It might sound crazy, but I don't care about law :) If I think that some reverse engineering is justified *moraly* then I'll do it, while betting that the EU law is ok with it. If I get sued, I'll stand and claim my rights to do what I did, with the strong hope of winning the case of course. It's quite of bad idea for Macromedia to make peopl doubt on its intentions towards reverse engineering. They say "we will publish the specs... later but before this time be careful in what you're doing.... for other projects as well". It has a name : FUD. And this thread is a typical FUD thread. I'm not saying we shouldn't talk about it, but noone here is a lawyer, so in the last call we should rely on our morality and our sense of good and evil that the law is supposed to enforce. Again, that's an EU guy opinion, I understand the situation in the US is a bit different, but that shouldn't mean people can't fight for more liberties. Also, OSFlash is hosted in UK I guess. I'll give also some links that most of you already know : http://www.eff.org http://www.gnu.org Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
