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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by arcticbull on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:26PM (#27040935)
I don't take quite the same bearish view on this app.

I suspect the "reverse engineering" here was just looking at Bluetooth LE GATT attributes and values, which you can just look at using something like Bluetility [1]. There appears to be some exemptions to DMCA for compatibility so long as the author didn't copy Bose' code, but IANAL. [2]

The name I think is the more challenging part because it's very close - probably a C&D if it becomes popular to change the name.

[1] https://github.com/jnross/Bluetility

[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by crooked-v on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:16PM (#27041680)
This is a trademark issue, not a copyright one.
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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by arcticbull on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:57PM (#27042800)
Agreed.
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