--- Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The licence says this: > > > * Limitations on Reverse-Engineering, > Decompilation, and Disassembly. > > You may not reverse- engineer, decompile, or > disassemble the SOFTWARE > > PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such > activity is expressly > > permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this > limitation. > > As written in the chmspec colophon, I didn't do any > disassembly of > Microsoft stuff, only black-box format discovery. > Mainly this was by > sending different inputs to Microsoft's hhc and > observing the output, as > well as looking at existing samples of CHM files. I > imagine that is > probably "reverse-engineering" according to > Microsoft (although they > haven't contacted me at all, so maybe not). > > http://chmspec.nongnu.org/latest/Colophon.html
That sounds like the same way wine and samba are developed, which is called "clean-room reverse-engineering", and which should be legal. If it were not, using this code in wine wouldn't make anything worse ;-) regards, Joris ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121