> Yeah copyright doesn't work like that. You don't get to violate it just because you need to for interoperability (unfortunately). This is only sort of true;

> Yeah copyright doesn't work like that. You don't get to violate it just because you need to for interoperability (unfortunately). This is only sort of true; it's a messy and complex area of law. For instance, interoperability was one of the defenses Google raised in the Oracle lawsuit over Android's use of Java APIs. (It ended up not helping them much, on the grounds that Android isn't actually that interoperable with other Java implementations, which is different from interoperability not being a usable defense at all.) And the DMCA has specific exceptions allowing reverse-engineering for the purposes of interoperability.