Re: [plex86] Licensing issues (and Debian policy as a side note)

[barton grantham]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Willow Schlanger wrote:

> might be done. I wonder, is it legal to reverse engineer your BIOS and
> then make a competing BIOS? Did we ever sign a license agreement, when
> we bought our computers, about the BIOS? I didn't. Did any of you?
> There's a program called Sourcer that I'm trying to save up for that
> reverse engineers your BIOS and gives you source code. It does the same
> thing for Windows, but as they note, there is no practical value in
> reassembling the source (you can't sell it under your name).

      Isn't this exactly what Compaq did back in the day in order to make
their first PC compatible?  Not sure how the legal landscape has changed
since then, but I'm pretty sure it was legal at one time.

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