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novell die-off imminent?
novell die-off imminent?
Posted Nov 16, 2006 12:49 UTC (Thu) by gwg (guest, #20811)In reply to: novell die-off imminent? by drag
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft
> So this stuff has been reversed engineered from software provided for
> Microsoft associated developers. I am sure that in the legal agreements
> and EULA hell associated with MS beta programs probably forbid stuff like that.
Probably, but (as far as I can tell) it doesn't apply, because Samba is being done in Australia, and the Copyright Amendment (Computer Programs) Bill 1999 exempts people from such EULA terms, if the reverse engineering is for the purpose of study, security or software compatibility.
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