Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol
by xorblurb on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:50AM
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This French law existed before. The EU directive probably comes from the preexisting French law.
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Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol
by macmac on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @06:32AM
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As far as I can tell the "French law" would be Article L122-6-1 of Code de la propriété intellectuelle which is dated 10 May 1994. The Eu Software Directive was first enacted in 1991. The text of the French law is almost verbatim the text of the directive.
Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol
by nraynaud on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:25AM
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It's even more explicit than the dates, the article was created by this law: "Loi n° 94-361 du 10 mai 1994 portant mise en oeuvre de la directive (C. E. E.) n° 91-250 du Conseil des communautés européennes en date du 14 mai 1991 concernant la protection juridique des programmes d'ordinateur et modifiant le code de la propriété intellectuelle"
edit: link http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsession...