Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:50:55 -0400
From: phares@dg-rtp.dg.com (Rand Phares)
To: quake-dev@gamers.org
Subject: Re: Quake license forbids Quake specs?
Message-Id: <525_39_835656654_33@viper>
Michael Hartle writes:
> Reverse engineering means the process of finding out how id wrote the
> software in order to run this fast, with these features, how they did this
> or that - the technologies - in order to use them in your programs. The
> exact meaning has to be defined by a lawyer, I suppose. Correct me if I am
> wrong... this is the way I do understand it.
You don't have to understand how id did it. Reverse Engineering means
coming up with a way to make an identical product by examining the product
itself.
rand