[Ilugc] Really amazing from OSS developers
- From: vijaykumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Vijay Kumar)
- Date: Tue Jan 8 12:14:49 2008
Vishnu Vijayaraghavan wrote:
Btb. how legal is it to reverse engineer a software in India. What
does our local law say about it?
From chapter XI of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 available at
http://www.education.nic.in/copyright/CprAct.pdf
<quote>
The following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright,
namely:
[clip]
(ab) the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for
operating inter-operability of an independently created computer
programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer
programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available;
(ac) the observation, study or test of functioning of the computer
programme in order to determine the ideas and principles which underline
any elements of the programme while performing such acts necessary for
the functions for which the computer programme was supplied;
</quote>
Regards,
Vijay
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