[Freeciv] legal cite
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:29:20 Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > Under both EU and US laws you MAY LAWFULLY modify, enhance,
> supplement,
> > create derivative work from, adapt, translate, reverse engineer,
> > decompile, disassemble and otherwise reduce the CD-ROM to human
> readable form.
>
> Got a legal cite for that?
US I dont know. EU:
...
Certain reverse engineering techniques are also specifically allowed.
The person having a right to use a copy of a computer program shall
be entitled, without the authorisation of the rightholder, to observe,
study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the
'ideas and principles' underlying any element of the program, so long as
this does not result in an infringing copy. Moreover, the Directive
provides that such 'rights of the rightful possessor' cannot be overridden
by contract.
The most important exception is the possibility of decompiling a program
to make it interoperable with other programs. This point was the subject
of intense debate and resulted in a pragmatic compromise which has the
effect in practice that the information required for establishing
interoperability is made available.
...
Source is http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2000/com2000_0199en01.pdf
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