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Please clarify reverse engineering

Open bastien-roucaries opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Hi,

For including your software in debian, we should have a statement of the reverse engineering.

I suppose you have done a clean room implementation.

Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

Thanks [email protected]

bastien-roucaries avatar Feb 09 '21 10:02 bastien-roucaries

For including your software in debian

Cool, thank you!

I suppose you have done a clean room implementation. Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

What I did was I disassembled the client side, and implemented the server side. I'm not sure I can technically call this a clean room implementation, but I certainly have not used any code from the client side in the server.

Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

In the EU, disassembling is legal for interoperability purposes, if the obtained information has not been available by other means. Regarding the AirScan protocol, this applied in December 2017, when I disassembled the AirScanScanner executable. For further reference, see https://vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-reverse-engineering-in-the-eu/.

SimulPiscator avatar Feb 09 '21 12:02 SimulPiscator

In the meantime, the eSCL protocol has been officially published at https://mopria.org/mopria-escl-specification This might mitigate any concerns you have regarding reverse engineering.

SimulPiscator avatar Aug 01 '21 14:08 SimulPiscator

Will try to get this through our process

bastien-roucaries avatar Aug 09 '21 09:08 bastien-roucaries

BTW I will prefer a statement of you with (using your real name and crypted signed if needed) to [email protected].

It will ease the review for ftpmaster

I have juste opened 992024 : https://bugs.debian.org/992024

bastien-roucaries avatar Aug 09 '21 09:08 bastien-roucaries

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SimulPiscator avatar Apr 20 '24 16:04 SimulPiscator