Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 08:56:46 08/29/04
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On August 29, 2004 at 03:16:21, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On August 28, 2004 at 20:05:49, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>On August 28, 2004 at 14:05:08, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >> >>> >>>I also commend chess program authors, commercial or not, to put some disassembly >>>paragraph inside the readme and to remove symbols from the executable. >>> >>>Gerd >> >>Hi Gerd: >>What do you mean by "put some disassembly paragraph inside the readme"? >> >>Dan H. > >I am not a lawyer (IANAL), something like: > >"It is not permitted to disassemble or reverse engenier this program" I'm not a lawyer either but my understanding is disassembly for the purpose of making a copy is illegal; disassembly for the purpose of detecting a copy is not. A simple solution for authors: write original code and let 'em disassemble to their heart's content. Dan H.
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