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From: Tim R. <om...@ho...> - 2004-03-28 05:23:16
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SuperMMX wrote: >On >Ryan Barrett <gai...@ry...> wrote: > > > >>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:59:10 -0800 (PST) >> >>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, SuperMMX wrote: >> >> >> >>>But, the most importand thing is that it is illegal, so the first plugin >>>for gaim , aka ZouDan's, has to be closed. >>> >>> >>hrm. i'll be the first to admit that i'm not extremely familiar with how >>china works in these areas...but why is an IM program illegal? and even >>more strangely, why does that imply that implementations written by >>Chinese citizens must be closed source? >> >> >> > >the IM itself is not illegal, it is a commercial software(but users can >download it for free charge), so the reverse-engineered sources inlcuding >plugins for gaim is illegal, and some other tools such as ad. remover, ip >displayer for QQ on Win .. etc, are also illegal.. > >maybe ZouDan's is the most popular plugin in other platform, so the Tencet Inc. >forced him to give up the development. In the other side, Tencent Inc. probably >has no such big power to force a developer out of China to give up.. As to the >second gaim plugin i mentioned in the last post, despite of the disclaim that >the plugin is developed by taking QQ as a black box (sniffering the packet, and >analyzing the protocol), IMHO it is still illegal. that's my 2 cents, and i should >admit that i know little about law, especially IP.. > > > >>-Ryan >> >>-- >>"Woooo!" -Twinsen >> >> >> >> >> > > > > Coding from packet dumps isn't illegal. How do you think OSCAR, MSN, Yahoo!, etc, were figured out? --Tim Ringenbach |