Please clarify reverse engineering

[bastien-roucaries]

Hi,

For including your software in debian, we should have a statement of the reverse engineering.

I suppose you have done a clean room implementation.

Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

Thanks rouca@debian.org

[SimulPiscator]

For including your software in debian

Cool, thank you!

I suppose you have done a clean room implementation. Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

What I did was I disassembled the client side, and implemented the server side. I'm not sure I can technically call this a clean room implementation, but I certainly have not used any code from the client side in the server.

Could you certify that you have done correctyl and legally the reverse engineering ?

In the EU, disassembling is legal for interoperability purposes, if the obtained information has not been available by other means. Regarding the AirScan protocol, this applied in December 2017, when I disassembled the AirScanScanner executable. For further reference, see https://vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-reverse-engineering-in-the-eu/.

[SimulPiscator]

In the meantime, the eSCL protocol has been officially published at https://mopria.org/mopria-escl-specification This might mitigate any concerns you have regarding reverse engineering.

[bastien-roucaries]

Will try to get this through our process

[bastien-roucaries]

BTW I will prefer a statement of you with (using your real name and crypted signed if needed) to rouca@debian.org.

It will ease the review for ftpmaster

I have juste opened 992024 : https://bugs.debian.org/992024

[SimulPiscator]

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