Re: Wine disassembly and reverse engineering rules.

[Jakob Eriksson]

James Hawkins wrote:
> On 8/5/07, Jakob Eriksson  wrote:
> > DMCA Reverse engineering exemption:
> >
> > http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi#QID210
> > From the article:
>
> "The reverse engineer is required to ask permission first, however."
>
> ...good luck with that.

It is strange that the say that, because I can not find anything about
asking permission in the actual law text:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html#f

regards,
Jakob