Re:ReStuff
by joshspankit on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:04AM
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Some companies (or some people at some companies) have seen similar setups and said “if someone wants to use the functionality of our software, they need their own license”.
I don’t know if the company has any legal right to send a C&D, but that has not stopped some in the past.
Re:ReStuff
by jrochkind1 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:43AM
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Yeah, I don't know if that's legally enforceable or not. Yes, they can still threaten legal action.
It seems pretty unlikely to me they will, for software they don't sell anymore, to a project that is not charging any money, and has a pretty niche audience (there aren't that many people that have use of this service).
No?
It doesn't sound like any reverse engineering happened.
Is this illegal in some way? I mean, it's not a copyright violation if those copies of Stuffit were licensed and not pirated. Is it some kind of shrinkwrap license violation to put it on a VM that accepts jobs from the public online? I dunno. Probably not? Does it seem likely that a company that no longer makes software for this format is going to come after someone for providing a translation service online for a pretty niche hobbyist audience, that they are charging no money for? Doesn't seem very likely to me, I don't know why they'd do that.