Re: [ros-kernel] Use or not use

[Diego I. <ias...@ac...>]

Hello list

The licenses legal state were discussed in some other sites/forums. From what 
I get copyright are not covered the same way all over the world. For example 
see 128 bits encryption status: legal in some countries and illegal in 
others. Here is Israel ,if I am not mistaking, unassemble and reverse 
engineering in software is not illegal. Licenses are covered by local laws of 
each country. (where is ros located? us? if not we could move it to another 
place).

I want to remind you all the debate about the ms eula, which says that you can 
run that program (ms-word , ie) on any ms operating system, and there for you 
may not run it under (for example) linux using wine, or lindows.
This eula is not legal, since they cant force you to run the program how under 
a specific os, nor resctirct you to the use of the program  ("it is unlegal 
to run ms-word in win95, please upgrade to winxp or else", or "no you cannot 
compile an os system core in vc6, nor a browser"). And if they will sue, it 
will never stand in course. (another dabate could be the no warranty for non 
free programs, but lets keep it another thread)

Header files are not code but definition of standard values and declaration of 
function names and structures. These structs could be written from the 
definitions: foo() needs a struct sized n bytes, the first 4 are a 
signature/magic number equal to X, the next 2 the time and etc. These 
definition do not implict of anything that the program does. That is why 
header are most times not changed while the binary implementation that uses 
them do change. That is where the real secrets are. 

what i really want to say is best sad in arabic "yalla"! (which can be 
translated as lets go). they cant sue, and they don't have someone to sue. 

On Monday 27 May 2002 17:10, Robert K. wrote:
> I think there is a passus that restricts the use of the files to only
> _MS_-windows developement
>
> Since this header is exchangeable and its use is not forbidden (until now),
> I'll use it for now.
>

btw: if anyone replies in this list please delete the sourge force signatures 
from the original post, I will get those lines anyway, and it annoys me to 
d/l  a lot of unusable bytes.

 - diego

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