Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request: Change the allowed license of plugins

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:31:04 +1100
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Request: Change the allowed license of plugins


>
> Christopher K.  St.  John writes:
>  >  This is clearly a lawyer problem, not a GPL problem.
> No it appears to be the problem of people interpreting a license that is
not
> very clear about patent invalidation.
>
> Let me be clear about the issue again. If someone reverse engineers a
> proprietary protocol and releases a decoder under GPL, whether or not a
company
> chooses to pursue the individual as a patent infringement issue is not the
> issue being debated.

What is there to pursue?
Most of the world is not the US and have laws that explicitely states that
reverse engineering for certain
purposes are legal.

Why should a developer in Germany care about local US laws?