Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 11:40:15 08/29/04
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On August 29, 2004 at 09:00:04, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On August 29, 2004 at 07:54:42, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On August 29, 2004 at 04:43:00, Andrew Williams wrote: >> >>>On August 29, 2004 at 03:16:21, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>> >>>>On August 28, 2004 at 20:05:49, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 28, 2004 at 14:05:08, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>I also commend chess program authors, commercial or not, to put some disassembly >>>>>>paragraph inside the readme and to remove symbols from the executable. >>>>>> >>>>>>Gerd >>>>> >>>>>Hi Gerd: >>>>>What do you mean by "put some disassembly paragraph inside the readme"? >>>>> >>>>>Dan H. >>>> >>>>I am not a lawyer (IANAL), something like: >>>> >>>>"It is not permitted to disassemble or reverse engenier this program" >>> >>>Why would you suggest that? I don't understand? >>> >>>Andrew >> >>Because disassembling is likely to be an act to spy out a program, which is not >>open source. Of course if a severe suspicion is claimed by someone, that a >>program is a clone, an independent legal instance is allowed to disassemble to >>check the facts, if the autor is not cooperative to show/explain his sources. >> >>I can't imagine that some commercial authors are happy if somebody else >>disassembles their program for academic reasons. >> >>Gerd > >Gerd, > >disassembling for purposes of finding information is legal and cannot be >prevented. > >It would be legal (though incredibly hard) for someone to disassemble one of the >commercial programs and publish his findings. > >Vas Really? Thanks for the information. If i'll ever release a program, i'll try the best to hide all my stuff. I guess each fifth byte is probably 0x66 or 0x0f ;-) Gerd
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