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Tue, 09 Nov 2004

posted in /general I like my Olympus Voice Recorder, except for the 'license' agreement

Olympus wants me to agree that 'Analysis, reverse engineering, a decompile, and carrying out a dissassembly are forbidden about every portion of this software, DLL, or this software. Printing of the combination with this software and other applications, inclusion, and this software is also forbidden.'

First, that is just the worst English I have read in a while. Second, there are no DLL's in a Mac program, and Third, I've already reverse engineered part of the DSS file format. Seems right for me to do so. But importantly, I absolutely refuse to grant them those rights. I assert that since they are selling Voice Recorders which are used to capture the data about my life that I have every moral right to do anything that I need to do in order to maintain access to my thoughts and words and voice recordings that are stored in their file format.

That means that I specifically reject their claims of copyright over the software that they wrote. If they would like to publish the spec for DSS files then I will accept their moral rights to lock me out of their software.

But they have not done so, and I assert that since the only way to get access to my own data is to use their software, or to reverse engineer their software in order to write my own, that I have the right to reverse engineer their software.

Actually...I was most annoyed because at first I read 'DLL' as 'DSS' and thought they were telling me I couldn't do what I had already done when I wrote the Perl module Audio::DSS. The thing about open source software is that freedom truly is important.

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