Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

[Jeremiah Gowdy]

> Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> >
> > > Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.
> >
> > United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f)
> >
> > My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the
> > software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the
> > software for the purpose of achiving interoperability.  Therefore, if
you
> > own a piece of hardware, and you have no driver for the hardware, or the
>
> I wonder, if this provision is overriden by the DMCCA (the new
> proposed and in some places adopted act on software copyrights) ?
>
> -SB

United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 IS the DMCA.  I said
that in my post.  :)




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