[MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 12 July 2002, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > 
> > Arpi & CoreDevel team are from Hungaria, lots of other people are
> > from Europe. Who gives a damn about f**king USA laws?
> > I can reverse-engineer whatever I want, because I live in free
> > country (CZ). I can actually reverse-engineer NSA's most secret
> > stuff, (well, I can't, coz I'm not smart enough, but I could :-)
> 
> Yep.
> The problem seems to be that (some) Americans act as IF US laws where
> valid everywhere else...
> 
> Also I believe that according to EU laws, reverse engineering is allowed
> to gain interoperability to be able to compete with your rivals :-)

AFAIK Polish law says the same thing.

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