On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:52:46PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is
> > because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for
> > this, and other reasons due to its reverse engineering.
>
> May I ask you in which country reverse-engineering for compatibility is
> forbidden?
>
> I'm just curious, because it is legal in Poland, but only for
> compatibility reasons, and I guess this situation fits this.
That's because Poland is part of the EU now, where it is legal.
This is good, but it's not true anywhere else; so if the reverse
engineering has been done outside the EU, there's a problem.
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