POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : ReactOS : Re: ReactOS Server Time
4 Sep 2024 11:19:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ReactOS  
From: Darren New
Date: 24 Jun 2010 12:49:44
Message: <4c238ca8$1@news.povray.org>
John VanSickle wrote:
> There may be a term in the EULA which prohibits reverse engineering.

... which *used* to be unenforceable in the US, since copyright law is 
federal and allows reverse engineering, while EULAs are contract law which 
is state law.

The DMCA and all that probably changed this in the 30+ years since I learned 
that, tho.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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