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From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com>
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:26:14 -0800
Organization: Interceptor Systems
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To: erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu
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erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu wrote:
>
> Not to mention reverse engineering is fair-use, as per copyright law, so
> a contract -can-not- forbid this.
Just to be clear... you still cannot share the information with anyone else legally,
you cannot use the information to create your own hardware, and if your work gets into
the hands of someone who DOES do that (even if they get your work despite you forbidding
them to do so), you will still be liable for copyright infringement.
From a legal standpoint, it may not be illegal, but it's not a smart thing to do.
You can apply the old pilots' adage to copyright laws...
"Copyright law isn't hard. It's merely unforgiving of error."
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Thumper! Leporidae Extraordinhare
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