Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!amdahl!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi
From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,alt.flame,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Smalltalk/V Decompiler
Message-ID: <1355@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 17:25:52 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1355
Posted: Tue Oct 27 17:25:52 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 01:02:14 EST
References: <2490@mmintl.UUCP> <57@ateng.UUCP> <1892@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 14
Xref: hoptoad comp.lang.smalltalk:390 alt.flame:445 misc.legal:3234

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.

I refer you to the case of Vault versus Quaid in which Vault claimed
that Quaid had violated copyright law by loading a program into memory
with the purpose of disassembling it.

I will leave you to guess whether the judge successfully suppressed a
giggle as he told Vault its claim had no merit.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi