Hi, I'm also not a lawyer, and i agree with Nicolas. Seems like MM is playing somehow with the OS community. I don't know if AMFPHP has any legal issue, but what i can see is that MM is clearly "supporting" it:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=amfphp So i don't understand why now "maybe AMFPHP is not legal enough"... Bye On 10/26/05, Nicolas Cannasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Zárate _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
