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If you violate their license and use what you learned to make a profit, you're commiting commercial copyright violation. Which is a criminal offense. I don't ag
by cyphar 11y ago
If you violate their license and use what you learned to make a profit, you're commiting commercial copyright violation. Which is a criminal offense. I don't agree with the law on this matter, but I'd seriously consider getting a lawyer before offering illegal services online.
Also, why not just work on a free software replacement for Skype? That way people could use your code without being threatened by patent suits and other legal arsenal wielded by Microsoft.
- skypeopensource 11y ago"and use what you learned to make a profit" I am not. Problem was in different case. I should not post patched skype binaries, needed for reverse engineering. And its okay, what i will be shotdown for use it.
- cyphar 11y agoYou're currently asking for money to be able to do something which is illegal. I'd consider that "making a profit". You may not be selling it directly, but crowd funding is a type of sale.
- arpa 11y agoThat is not entirely true for EU: "...An objective of this exception is to make it possible to connect all components of a computer system, including those of different manufacturers, so that they can work together." And the US: Sec. 103(f) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 1201 (f)) says that a person who is in legal possession of a program, is permitted to reverse-engineer and circumvent its protection if this is necessary in order to achieve "interoperability" - a term broadly covering other devices and programs being able to interact with it, make use of it, and to use and transfer data to and from it, in useful ways. A limited exemption exists that allows the knowledge thus gained to be shared and used for interoperability purposes.