[ros-dev] Moving svn to another contrury or not

[Jerry]

"I think that reverse engineering of the Microsoft Code is wrong!!!"
According to US law that is incorrect.
(reference 1 <http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise48.html>, 
reference 2 
<http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+122+0++%28%29%20%20AND%20%28%2817%29%20ADJ%20USC%29%3ACITE%20AND%20%28USC%20w%2F10%20%281201%29%29%3ACITE%20%20AND%20%28CHAPTER%20ADJ%20%2812%29%29%3AEXPCITE%20%20%20%20%20%20%20>)


Title 17, Chapter 12, Section 1201 of the US Code:

      (f) Reverse Engineering. - (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of
    subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right
    to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological
    measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of
    that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing
    those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve
    interoperability of an independently created computer program with
    other programs, and that have not previously been readily available
    to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such
    acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement
    under this title.


      (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b),
    a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a
    technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a
    technological measure, in order to enable the identification and
    analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling
    interoperability of an independently created computer program with
    other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such
    interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute
    infringement under this title.


      (3) The information acquired through the acts permitted under
    paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be
    made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1)
    or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means
    solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an
    independently created computer program with other programs, and to
    the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under
    this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
      

      (4) For purposes of this subsection, the term "interoperability"
    means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and
    of such programs mutually to use the information which has been
    exchanged.



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