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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Subject: Re: Don't Break the Law to get a driver... WAS: quit complaining..
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In-Reply-To: <14315.37419.267379.799978@desk.crynwr.com>; from Russell Nelson on Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:04:05AM -0400

Russell Nelson wrote:
> Right now, you can't enforce shrink-wrap license terms that prohibit
> reverse engineering.  You'd need a real contract to do that, and
> nobody in their right mind negotiates a contract for mass-market
> software.

Does that include the "Click 'I Agree'" license on Lucent's web page?
I would very much like to look at the latest generic Lucent code as
it is much newer than either of the other drivers we have looked at.
I haven't because the "Click 'I Agree'" cover page includes quite
specific "thou shalt not reverse engineer the code or extract portions
of it" clauses.

( The rest is the usual "you do not own the software; you are granted a
non-transferable license to use it which may be revoked at any time by
us." )

BTW I am in France, Switzerland or the UK, depending on your point of view.

-- Jamie