On 9/29/06, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think that the DMCA is really an issue here, unless he plans to distribute software in the USA.
Yes...in my opinion DMCA will not be an issue since we are not distributiing the software in north america....
> Wasn't the whole clean-room reverse engineering thing thrashed out in the Compaq vs IBM case? One person/team to reverse the code, another to write it again according to specifications given by the first set of people.
Our case would be slightly different as the university is providing their source code to us, so we are not really reverse engineering the product (as in decompiling) - are you suggesting one team from our end study the code.... and another team (from our side - not directly connected or dealing the university....) build the software?
I think that this would depend on the way the University defines "shared source" (which may not be the same as Microsoft's definition).
Yes...I have asked them for "specific" details on this :)
