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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Smalltalk/V Decompiler
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 20:15:32 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 20:15:32 1987
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In article <1892@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
| Most software is copyrighted.  This copyright grants only certain rights to
| the user, in the case of software, usually only the right to load the
| program into memory to be executed.  Loading a program into memory to be
| disassembled is not permitted in that case.  Even still, many of the
| licenses I have seen expressly forbid reverse engineering a piece of
| software by whatever means.  So, once again Mr. Adams in all likelyhood
| had no business with his nose being where it was.

 Please!  Don't confuse licenses with copyright.  I'm confused
enough without a statement from Mr. Adams about the details of his
situation.
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb
 Geac Computers International Inc.,   |  Computer Science loses its
 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, |  memory (if not its mind)
 CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 |  every 6 months.