Will ROS and WINE still be steady be synchronized ?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Sep 20 21:20:18 CDT 2007


Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> As far as I understand this, if I disassemble Microsoft binaries (it is
> legal in Israel), then the resulting knowledge is legal to use -
> anywhere (in other words - the only one who can be sued is me, and the
> jurisdiction is Israel, where the action is legal).

I am not a lawyer, but I bet you're wrong there.
The disassembled code is probably considered a copy,
using it could be a copyright violation, and
if any such code snuck into Wine, we'd have
to go rip it out at great cost.
- Dan



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