Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!valeria.cs.ucla.edu!wales From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Please boycott Xircom Message-ID: <39901@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 8 Oct 90 22:00:16 GMT References: <27414@usc.edu> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 27 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: You can bet your bippy I'm going to go over [Xircom's] "independently developed" packet driver with a fine- toothed comb. In article <27414@usc.edu> dra@neuro.usc.edu (Diane Annala) responds: Of course, Xircom could include a provision in their copyright notice forbidding nelson@image.clarkson.edu from disassembling, decompiling, or otherwise going over the new packet driver with a fine toothed comb. I seriously doubt any such copyright or license provision would be legally enforceable, if Russ Nelson's examination of Xircom's planned new driver did in fact show it to be derived from his own code in violation of the copyright thereon. Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and the above is not to be construed as legal advice. -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "I do not know. I have never done this before."