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Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by nraynaud on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:14AM (#6598223)
I guess that would be Code de la propriété intellectuelle - Article L122-6-1
Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by byroot on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @09:06AM (#6598418)
Here's the law http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=... (Google Translate at your own risk)

It's indeed pretty restrictive, some parts:

> Les informations nécessaires à l'interopérabilité n'ont pas déjà été rendues facilement et rapidement accessibles aux personnes mentionnées au 1° ci-dessus

> Informations required for interoperability, haven't been easily and quickly accessible.

This one is pretty easy to argue, unless you reverse engineer an application that implement a standardized protocol / format.

> ces actes sont limités aux parties du logiciel d'origine nécessaires à cette interopérabilité.

> You can only reverse engineer the parts needed for interoperability

Make sense.

> Les informations ainsi obtenues ne peuvent être communiquées à des tiers sauf si cela est nécessaire à l'interopérabilité du logiciel créé de façon indépendante ;

> Obtained informations cannot be shared with others unless it's required for interoperability.

Should be easy to workaround by making an open source library.

Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by fulafel on Friday October 25, 2013 @01:00AM (#6609850)
Could that be used to outlaw open source implementations? It's not strictly necessary after all...