Re: ITP: PIPS (Photo Image Print System for Linux)
On 4 Oct 2000, Eric The Read wrote:
> > How we can modify the code without source code, and being prohibited
> > to decompile/disassemble or reverse endineer?
>
> I think what it's saying is "For the source code of the software open to
> the public, we'll tell you what to do later. For the bits that are NOT
> open to the public (presumably provided in binary or object form), you
> cannot reverse-engineer its object code, decompile, etc." Not quite the
> same thing, but still questionable whether it's DFSG free.
>
One question: When I remember well, then the part prohibiting
dissassembling is void in Germany. Would this mean, that one would
be allowed to change the not-open-source parts of it?
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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