Re: Found the source of various AIM problems
Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
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On 11 Feb, 2004, at 03:53, Alan Humpherys wrote: > "...You may not translate, reverse-engineer or reverse-compile or > decompile, disassemble, make derivative works from, or otherwise > attempt to discover any source code in the Software. You may not > obtain the communications protocol for accessing the AIM service, the > AIM Products, or any other AOL services. Finally, you may not > authorize or assist any third party to do any of the things described > in this paragraph...." Unless they can prove that the client was reverse-engineered, they don't really have anything to argue with. "You may not obtain the communications protocol" is vague (I interpret it as 'you can't obtain the official spec from someone'). Of course, they can encrypt everything with a 128-bit cipher, and prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that the client itself was reverse-engineered. - Purr ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fire-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fire-talk Have a question? Please read the Fire Frequently Asked Questions: http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml