On Sunday 22 February 2009 16:40, Information Security wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Raj Mathur
raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
As far as I know India doesn't have any equivalent law to the DMCA, so there is nothing illegal in what you're doing. Since you're reverse engineering the protocol and not the application itself you should be
I'm not sure they can even do that. There is no EULA that comes up before the dialer installation in any case. I also checked their terms of use and they too do not menion anything about a dialer.
India tends to follow the Brit model of Copyright and patent laws. One of the requirements is fair use. So reverse engineering would be definetly permitted.
Besides I doubt SIFY will be suing anyone in a very long time.
Yes siddhesh you can reverse engineer & go ahead with the thing that you are trying to do. Best of luck but do keep in mind that after you are done you cant sell it to anyone but yes you can share it with anyone that you wish to just like linux.
Says who you cant sell. You are not copying their software (i presume). And software patents are illegal in India.