I was thinking about this too. AS far as Russia's laws go, they de permit reverse engineering for a propose of interoperability when there is not enough information provided. Besides, how else could you find this "undocumented features"? I would even say "completely opposite from what documentation say".
Sunday, May 18, 2003, 3:55:26 PM, you wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2003 23:45:12 +0200, Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de wrote:
Isn't it a bit dangerous that people who disassemble M$-Code also submit patches to wine?
I was also curious about that and asked in the newsgroup but I got no really usefull answer so far. In Germany and Austria there shouldn't be a problem with this ( as long as the new EU-Urheberrechtsgesetz is not in force). But it could become a problem in the US and other countries.
Maybe wine should move it's servers to Russia? :)
If you want to be able to really support games then there has to be a lot of work in reverse engineering in order to get the copyprotection in place. Otherwise wine will be only able to run cracked versions.