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From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
Date: 19 Jan 1995 05:29:15 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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In article <D2LH48.3IF@pe1chl.ampr.org> pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl writes:
>In <D2KG6E.CMp@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
>
>>rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) wrote:
>>] >Well, as far as I know, most of the "sniffer" type network protocol
>>] >analyzers have licensed the packet decodes from Novell, and in
>>] >getting the thing installed, you've agreed to their license terms,
>>] >which include the sublicense terms from Novell.  And these explicitly
>>] >disallow using the information provided for reverse engineering
>>] >things.
>>] 
>>] But those license terms are null and void in most of Europe...
>
>>But not in the US.
>
>>So you will be able to distribute your code in Europe and not the
>>US, until GATT is signed, when you will need to destroy the code.
>
>Note that I am not planning to write Novell-compatible code.
>Frankly I would not care if code I wrote was not distributable in the US
>because of some regulation pertinent to the US.  That is a problem of
>the US citizens, and just as the rest of the world had to write their
>own DES code because US citizens were not allowed to export it, you will
>have to write some code yourself because you cannot import it.  fair.
>
>Or, alternatively, after agreements have been signed you will be able
>to do the same thing in the US.  I don't think this freedom to make your
>system working will be so easily given up...
>

I sure hope all citizens of countries other than the US make sure that 
their more sane stance on intellectual property prevails, instead of 
the insanity that is prevailing here in the US! (and they are making 
plans to make it WORSE here...)

But there is hope here on the US side. Sega vs Accolade said reverse-
engineering is okay if needed for interoperablity.