[hobbit] Will hobbit infringe patent/copyright of Quest's bb ?

[Jones, Jason (Altrincham)]

If it copied the code yes but the port wouldn't matter and formatting of
the logs wouldn't either, since they are both fairly abstract principles
- you can't sue people for connecting to the same port your program uses
or the was they chose to make something look, only if they used your
code to do it without authorisation.

Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] 
Sent: 29 November 2006 14:13
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Will hobbit infringe patent/copyright of Quest's
bb ?

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:50, T.J. Yang wrote:
> port 1984 bb message protocol, log format are all originated and
designed
> by Quest' BB program.
> Will hobbit client/server  in legal problem later on if Quest decide
to
> enforce per-seat license policy ?
No.  And even with a yes, all this is easy changed.


Stef

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