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MSDN Mag suggesting EULA violation ?

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First off, reverse engineering is still protected by law. Samba and Wine
exist because of that; Mark Russinovich would be in jail by now if it were a
crime.

Second, to the extent that you're looking in the assemblies to figure out
how to code something and not for profit and exploitation then you should be
OK - mainly because there's no way anyone can prove that you did it. You'd
be in the same position if you looked in the SSCLI source.

Besides, Reflector is put out by a Microsoft employee. It would have been
"discontinued" ages ago if it wasn't for the fact that it is using a
documented way to get to assembly metadata and code. There's nothing magical
about it.

This guy is just paranoid or overreacting.

--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/
"hb" <nospam@aranhix_com_nospam> wrote in message
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Is this article wrong ??
http://hugobatista.dotnetx.org/archi...07/12/170.aspx

Jul 21 '05 #2
hb wrote:
Is this article wrong ??
http://hugobatista.dotnetx.org/archi...07/12/170.aspx


It certainly is /extremely/ funny !
Jul 21 '05 #3
Hi Klaus,
First off, reverse engineering is still protected by law. Samba and Wine
exist because of that; Mark Russinovich would be in jail by now if it were a crime.


That is not in every country that clear and even disclaimers about this have
to be made for some countries very carefully because when you claim it to
wide it can even be against the law and therefore useless.

Without any guarantee of course.

:-)

Cor

Jul 21 '05 #4
hb
> Second, to the extent that you're looking in the assemblies to figure out
how to code something and not for profit and exploitation then you should be OK - mainly because there's no way anyone can prove that you did it. You'd
be in the same position if you looked in the SSCLI source.


Even doing that.. you're still violating the license... no ?

Jul 21 '05 #5
hb
> Second, to the extent that you're looking in the assemblies to figure out
how to code something and not for profit and exploitation then you should be OK - mainly because there's no way anyone can prove that you did it. You'd
be in the same position if you looked in the SSCLI source.


Even doing that.. you're still violating the license... no ?

Jul 21 '05 #6

"hb" <nospam@aranhix_com_nospam> wrote
Second, to the extent that you're looking in the assemblies to figure out how to code something and not for profit and exploitation then you should be
OK - mainly because there's no way anyone can prove that you did it. You'd be in the same position if you looked in the SSCLI source.


Even doing that.. you're still violating the license... no ?


I see you have some rope for me there, but I'm not in the mood <g>

If in doubt, talk to a lawyer or something.

--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/
Jul 21 '05 #7

"hb" <nospam@aranhix_com_nospam> wrote
Second, to the extent that you're looking in the assemblies to figure out how to code something and not for profit and exploitation then you should be
OK - mainly because there's no way anyone can prove that you did it. You'd be in the same position if you looked in the SSCLI source.


Even doing that.. you're still violating the license... no ?


I see you have some rope for me there, but I'm not in the mood <g>

If in doubt, talk to a lawyer or something.

--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/
Jul 21 '05 #8
Hi Cor,

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote
That is not in every country that clear and even disclaimers about this have to be made for some countries very carefully because when you claim it to
wide it can even be against the law and therefore useless.


Oh, I know. But IANAL and all that =)

--
klaus
Jul 21 '05 #9
Hi Cor,

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote
That is not in every country that clear and even disclaimers about this have to be made for some countries very carefully because when you claim it to
wide it can even be against the law and therefore useless.


Oh, I know. But IANAL and all that =)

--
klaus
Jul 21 '05 #10

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