Rockwell sound format

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On Sat, 4 Feb 1995, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote:
> [..]
> > And something new, for Europeans at last. We have a new copyright since 
> > mid-1993, which allows decompilation for the creation of new programs to 
> > interface with the existing one, *WITHOUT* asking for permission...
> 
> I did know that "something" like this was permitted, but didn't know the
> exact details.
> 
> It will get complicated, though. How about the rights to export programs
> developed with the help of using reverse-engineering other programs, to
> countries with other copyright laws (e.g. the US)??
> 
I guess that's the point where it will get really interesting. Not only 
there seems to be no ruling in Germany/Europe probing the new law, I bet 
you'll get into deep trouble if you try to export something like this 
into the states. Imagine adding something this way to Word, somebody will 
be at you *real* fast.

Better still, you are allowed to give your copy of Word to some software 
house to delete some bugs...

Klaus

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