-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks >> that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license >> agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary drivers in >> the first place. Another reason to boycott ATI video cards. > > I only provided the scripts, not the modified binaries. The scripts > contain nothing owned by ATI. I am free to write whatever weird numbers > I want, as a bunch of numbers cannot be copyrighted. I can also have any > file named "fglrx_drv.so", if I so desire. > > Whether it is legal for you to use them is debatable, but you are free > to choose not to use them. >
Oh, I quite agree with you. I am debating whether to host these "hacks" on my website because I know many people who have this trouble. I posted a message on a forum about this hack and was asked politely to remove my message because it is "illegal". Now I don't think that is the case, but using the thing is illegal. So, it is similar to manufacturing a firearm. Even if the discharge of a firearm is illegal, doesn't mean that making one is. The hack that you posted is not dangerous, imo. As you point out, it is just a random string of numbers. However, applying this random string of numbers certainly does violate the license. Needless to say, whether one chooses to violate the law or not is their decision. Giving one the path to do so may be considered illegal in some jurisdictions only because it could be interpreted as assisting in breaking the law. That itself is a crime; not everywhere is this so. You do explicitly warn for people to do it at their own risk, which imo, gets you off the hook. If I do end up hosting it, I will give the same warning. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGPy3/iXBCVWpc5J4RAv0TAKCY7vyIKlm9rMkmS/MmF2RI25q1LACeL6um VFb9uXU8AYxoiL5SDPur5uA= =4MCe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
