[JDEV] legal?

[Benjamin Kahn]

	No it is not illegal.  Protocols are usually fair game.  If the
specifications are not published, it is perfectly legal to reverse
engineer protocols used by software and create a clone program.  There are
very specific rules governing what you can and can't do to obtain this
information.

On Sun, 23 May 1999, bod williams wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 21:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: bod williams <bodwilliams at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] legal?
> 
> 
> Hi everyone I'm new to this list!
> 
> Anyways I was wondering is this whole project legal, I mean just the
> part with being able to communicate with the ICQ, AOL, etc. clients?
> Like isn't there any copyright infringement with the use of their
> protocols or whatever? Am I missing something here?
> 
> Bod
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						-Ben

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