Re: Reverse Engeeniring

[Alessandro Rubini]

> [english version is included at the end]

[french version not included] :)

> A proprietary software is sold with the following included in the
> license:
> 
> "therefore you agree not to modify the Software or attempt to reverse
> engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except and only to the
> extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law
> notwithstanding this limitation."

Every proprietary license includes that part. As far as I know.

>       IIRC, reverse-engineering a communication protocol is legal in
> Europe.
> [...]
> I'd be gratefull if you could provide some information on this
> subject.

FWIW, Italian law allows reverse-eng for "interconnection
purposes". So if you don't have docs about a file format you can
decode by hand in order to recover your data.  Me thinks law should
make it compulsory to release any information that is needed for
interconnaction purposes.

/alessandro