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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jim Ramsay <lack@g.o> wrote: |
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> 2.5.1 You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works |
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> based upon the Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, |
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> disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the |
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> Software except to the extent you may be expressly permitted to |
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> decompile under applicable law, it is essential to do so in order to |
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> achieve operability of the Software with another software program, and |
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> you have first requested Adobe to provide the information necessary to |
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> achieve such operability and Adobe has not made such information |
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> available. |
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> I *think* I would be okay using this binary patch since: |
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> 1) This is specifically to make it operable with libcurl.so.4 |
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> 2) I have (and others have) asked Adobe to recompile it with support |
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> for libcurl.so.4 instead of libcurl.so.3, but they have not done so (or |
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> responded to any of these requests, as far as I am aware). |
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Actually (and I'm no lawyer either), I think a binary patch isn't allowed: |
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> You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works |
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> based upon the Software. |
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The rest of the paragraph is about obtaining (or trying to obtain) its |
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source code or application behavior, i.e. learn the program, not |
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modify it. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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