Dear Alexandre, it's not exactly that Cycling'74 is a dangerous, greedy company. They are all nice and forward-looking guys. If you are concerned about the issue, i would simply ask David Zicarelli. best, Thomas
-- Thomas Grill http://grrrr.org > Am 20.08.2016 um 20:41 schrieb Alexandre Torres Porres <por...@gmail.com>: > > Howdy, perhaps you wise folks can help me think about this topic. > > What are legal issues with reverse engineering proprietary software as an > open source project, what are the boundaries when it is not ok anymore? > > Sure I'm more interested in the case of cloning Max/MSP to Pd as in the > cyclone library, but it's a generic topic anyhow that can be broadened. > > But if we're to discuss this particular case, does Cycling hold the power to > sue and prevent cyclone from being distributed? > > It's not like their code is being used anyway, or some patented/proprietary > algorithm is being "stolen". It's all about reverse engineering it and having > same functionality as objects with the same name... and I don't think you can > hold the rights to that. > > Maybe if you were to clone the whole damn software exactly, and be able to > save files in the max format and everything... then you'd be on to > something... I think you'd cross the line with that one... > > well, that's what I have for now, thanks > > cheers > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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