Re: sunpci under linux ??
The trick here is that licenses that restrict so-called reverse
engineering are dependent upon the judicial region in which the reverse
engineering is to be performed.
This is because some places allow this sort of reverse engineering,
some allow it if the license allows it, and some disallow it unless the
license allows it, while there are a few who disallow it even if the
license allows it.
As you could see from the horrid syntactical nature of that paragraph
and thereby the complexity of the issue it is describing, Mr. Miller
might quite reasonably want to avoid confronting it, particularly when
a large corporation with many lawyers might become involved in the
dispute.
Now this does bring up another issue, to wit: what could he do if he
did not know that some code was created through the study of Sun code?
--- Admar Schoonen <admar@luon.net> wrote:
> ...However, I don't
> know if
> it's allowed to study CCDL licensed code and then write some similar
> code with
> a non CCDL license.
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