From: Tom <tom7ca@yahoo.com>
To: Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:05:55 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011111220555.49730.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011111134212.D23725@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
> > 1. Users are allowed to reverse engineer the application
> >
> > that just exposes the next major problem (i.e. point #1).
You cannot realistically protect yourself from reverse engineering.
In many countries, you cannot even prohibit reverse engineering in your
license. Reverse engineering for the purpose of building a work-alike
solution is an important part of a free market in software.
I suspect many businesses that have concerns about reverse engineering
are more concerned about having some dirty secrets exposed (like
GPL violations or the unlicensed use of commercial software) than about
a realistic expectation of anybody cloning their product by reverse
engineering.
Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-11 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-09 4:30 Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 4:48 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2001-11-09 8:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-09 15:52 ` Dave Scott
2001-11-09 16:40 ` David Brown
2001-11-09 16:40 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-11-12 8:07 ` Tom
2001-11-12 15:58 ` David Brown
2001-11-09 4:49 ` Will Benton
2001-11-09 5:35 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 5:53 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2001-11-09 5:58 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 9:27 ` Sven
2001-11-09 9:58 ` Julian Assange
2001-11-09 10:37 ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:39 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 15:36 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 9:25 ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:33 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-09 16:26 ` Tom
2001-11-11 12:25 ` Sven
2001-11-09 11:09 ` malc
2001-11-09 14:46 ` [Caml-list] ELF i386 dynamic linking patch. was: " Jeff Henrikson
2001-11-10 0:32 ` [Caml-list] " malc
2001-11-09 5:50 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Welsh Duggan
2001-11-09 8:59 ` Sven
2001-11-09 15:13 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-11 12:00 ` Sven
2001-11-11 14:56 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-26 16:21 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-11-26 16:47 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-27 10:28 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-11-27 10:58 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2001-11-28 18:00 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-30 8:05 ` Sven
2001-11-09 20:54 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-09 21:39 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-11-11 12:42 ` Sven
2001-11-11 22:05 ` Tom [this message]
2001-11-09 15:55 Dave Berry
2001-11-28 20:29 John Field
2001-11-28 22:08 ` Al Christians
2001-11-29 1:25 ` james woodyatt
2001-11-29 8:47 ` Florian Hars
2001-11-30 7:12 ` james woodyatt
2001-11-29 7:11 Ohad Rodeh
2001-11-29 19:49 David Gurr
2001-11-30 1:18 Don Syme
2001-11-30 1:59 ` Julian Assange
2001-12-01 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-04 18:53 ` Sven
2001-12-06 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2001-11-27 19:10 ` John Field
2001-11-28 18:22 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-28 19:14 ` Ronald Kuehn
2001-11-29 0:38 ` Julian Assange
2001-11-29 8:32 ` Xavier Leroy
[not found] ` <20011129105008.DEBFD25A1B@suburbia.net>
2001-11-29 12:50 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-29 13:42 ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29 13:11 ` Greg Bacon
2001-11-29 23:01 ` Julian Assange
2001-11-29 23:13 ` Greg Bacon
2001-11-29 8:31 ` Florian Hars
2001-11-29 8:43 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-11-29 9:04 ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29 9:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-29 9:29 ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29 9:25 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-11-29 9:35 ` Jérôme Marant
2001-11-29 8:53 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-11-30 8:09 ` Sven
2001-12-07 0:09 ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2001-12-07 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-06 12:26 ` Sven
2001-12-07 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2001-12-10 15:28 ` Sven
2001-12-10 23:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-12-11 4:22 ` hooh pxw
2001-12-11 10:19 ` Sven
2001-12-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2001-11-30 4:25 Gregory Morrisett
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