Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL
On 7 Dec 99, at 23:10, Richard Makin wrote:
> It's an interesting situation, because in countries like Poland you are
> explicitly granted with the right to deasemble the program, even if ELA
> states the opposite - the Polish law overrules it.
I am a Czech lawyer (Czech republic is neighbor to Poland) working
in IS/IT law, so I know very exactly, that what Richard has written is
less than full truth. According to the EU directives (and subsequnetly
many Easter European legal provisions) user is allowed to
dissasemlbe program, but _only_ for making connectivity with other
programs and unless he is not able to get information from other
sources. Therefore, he is mostly out of luck, because in tons of
documentation you have very often (I am talking about serious
:-) stuff like SAP, Oracle etc. -- not M$ crap) all possible
documentation on connectivity included (mainly because of this EU
directive, BTW).
Have a nice day
Matthew
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