Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-25 Thread Reincke, Karsten
-dtag-sign-de.txt ] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org [mailto:license-discuss- boun...@opensource.org] Im Auftrag von Ben Tilly Gesendet: Montag, 9. März 2015 21:45 An: License Discuss Betreff: Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-09 Thread Reincke, Karsten
-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses There is a significant problem with the abbreviated version that you wish I had said. I believe your analysis is wrong when you concluded that dynamic linking is enough to escape the reverse engineering provision

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-09 Thread Ben Tilly
I will respond inline this time because the conversation got complicated. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Reincke, Karsten k.rein...@telekom.de wrote: Many thanks for your detailed description. Indeed, I am sorry that we are reciprocally frustrated with us. But I do not want to give up. Let

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread David Woolley
On 06/03/15 09:09, Reincke, Karsten wrote: Why do I only say ‘very similar’ instead of ‘equal’. The problem with your summary is this: you do not talk about the license text! Your term “combined work” DOES NOT OCOUR in The problem with your approach is that you do not talk about the spirit

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Well, the provided text in the document does not appear to me to be conclusive that permitting reverse engineering is not required from LGPL users. There¹s interesting analysis of the wording but the real ³missing step² for me would be that your analysis would actually hold up in a court of law.

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Lawrence Rosen
-Original Message- From: Tzeng, Nigel H. [mailto:nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu] Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 8:29 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses Well, the provided text in the document does not appear to me

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Reincke, Karsten
[mailto:ftf-legal- boun...@fsfeurope.org] Im Auftrag von Ben Tilly Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. März 2015 03:51 An: License Discuss Cc: karen.copenha...@gmail.com; ftf-le...@fsfeurope.org; Schwegler, Robert Betreff: Re: [FTF-Legal] [License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Cinly Ooi
To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses Well, the provided text in the document does not appear to me to be conclusive that permitting reverse engineering is not required from LGPL users. There¹s interesting analysis

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Ben Tilly
- boun...@fsfeurope.org] Im Auftrag von Ben Tilly Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. März 2015 03:51 An: License Discuss Cc: karen.copenha...@gmail.com; ftf-le...@fsfeurope.org; Schwegler, Robert Betreff: Re: [FTF-Legal] [License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses Sorry

Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

2015-03-06 Thread Lawrence Rosen
, 2015 9:37 AM To: lro...@rosenlaw.com; License Discuss Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [FTF-Legal] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses Dear Larry I have no doubt about your legal expertise and experience, but I think generally speaking using something legally reverse-engineered in one