Re: [Gaim-devel] Chinese Tencent QQ protocol?

[Tim R. <om...@ho...>]

SuperMMX wrote:

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>Ryan Barrett <gai...@ry...> wrote:
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>>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:59:10 -0800 (PST)
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>>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, SuperMMX wrote:
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>>>But, the most importand thing is that it is illegal, so the first plugin
>>>for gaim , aka ZouDan's, has to be closed.
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>>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?
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>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.. 
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>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..
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>>-Ryan
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>>"Woooo!"  -Twinsen
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Coding from packet dumps isn't illegal. How do you think OSCAR, MSN, 
Yahoo!, etc, were figured out?

--Tim Ringenbach