On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:00:40 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030726.103846.20535602.imp_at_bsdimp.com> > "M. Warner Losh" <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes: >> The reason I keep saying that is that nobody knows for sure. Nobody >> has reverse engineered anything, got sued and won (or lost). Just > > However, there are one or two cases that are close to relevant working > their ways through the courts. Since they are in different districts, > the answer is different depending on where you live in the US. Or *whether* you live in the US. There's a very good reason nobody's ever been sued for reverse engineering in Australia: it's not illegal (which may be a different statement from saying "it's legal"). That gets back to the original question: is it legal to use reverse engineered software in the USA? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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