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
>
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