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An injunction against Fortinet for GPL violationsAn injunction against Fortinet for GPL violationsPosted Apr 15, 2005 19:30 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: An injunction against Fortinet for GPL violations by bbigby Parent article: An injunction against Fortinet for GPL violations
Besides, gpl-violations.org did not circumvent the protections in order to use the software. They did it to reveal GPL violations. I think that matters in the law. It should. Since reverse engineering not for purpose of using the product is done every single day on millions of computers around the world! How ? Why ? Easy: anti-virus software. It does automatic reverse engineering of each and every program to catch "virus-like activity". If you'll think about it this exactly the same procedure copyright holder must do to catch copyright violation when code is obfuscated. And when automated procedure fails anti-virus companies continue with manual reverse engineering and then add more sophisticated algorythms in automatic version.
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An injunction against Fortinet for GPL violations Posted Apr 16, 2005 8:16 UTC (Sat) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] Excellent point.
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