Gavriel State wrote:
Mark Hannessen wrote:
When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA
Are you sure about the above statements? Have you checked that, or it is just your opinion?
Carlos words regarding copy protection:
You aren't giving hints to decrypt some code, simply implementing the win32 API, and sometimes implementing a PC architecture, it is far away of decrypt code ;).
Laurent's copy protection patch, while impressive, does have a pretty serious copyright-related issue, which has nothing to do with the DMCA. The problem is that his SafeDisc driver is - at least in parts - a direct translation of a dissassembly. Such translation means that technically it's a derivative work, and thus would require the agreement of the original copyright owner to redistribute.
-Gav
A solvable problem, mind you. He needs to create an interface declaration of what the algorithms and interfaceses need to be, and have someone else implement based on that. That is called "Clean room" and has been agreed as non-deriviative work.
Sh.