On 30 Jun 2015, at 4:47am, Darko Volaric <lists at darko.org> wrote:
> If it's being used for teaching it can also be fair use: ( from > http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq ) > > "the court found that the biographer's use was fair, in part because the > biographer's purpose was to educate and inform the public" > > Of course this reflects US law but it most likely also applies in Germany, > and is probably even more favorable for fair use there. I work for a university. We're allowed to reverse-engineer and break some other intellectual property rights (or rather to exploit the exceptions made for education). But we have big expensive lawyers and sometimes have to actually pay them to respond to threats for us. As for using the SQLite command-line tool to find out the schema of a SQLite database, I cannot take this seriously as reverse-engimeering. The ability exists and is easy to exploit in most SQL systems. It's not even hard work: you run one program and type one command. If that's reverse-engineering then so is turning an office chair over to see why the wheels aren't rolling freely. Simon.
