Re: Legality of analysing DSDT table

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Mateusz Jończyk writes ("Legality of analysing DSDT table"):
> I am working on some bug in Linux kernel that is probably somehow
> related to ACPI.  Would it be legal if a bug reporter in India sent
> me his DSDT table and I would then decompile and analyse it?

You seem to be in Poland.  I think there is no problem with this in
European Union law: AIUI reverse engineering for the purpose of
compatibility is excluded from the copyright monopoly.

Also it seems very unlikely that anyone would want to complain.

NB I am not a lawyer.

Ian.