From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA23684; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:05:59 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA23381 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:05:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from web11906.mail.yahoo.com (web11906.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.190]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id fABM5un08065 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:05:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <20011111220555.49730.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.221.171.193] by web11906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:05:55 PST Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:05:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml To: Vitaly Lugovsky , caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20011111134212.D23725@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr