Re: [Moderator] Re: MacBook Air multitouch trackpad API

FROM : Nicko van Someren
DATE : Sun Feb 03 04:22:52 2008

On 2 Feb 2008, at 21:31, Scott Anguish wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:
>

>> On Feb 2, 2008 1:15 PM, Scott Anguish <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>> Do not post links to reverse engineered APIs here.
>>>

>> why not?

>
> First, the Mac OS X Software License Agreement says you may not 
> disassembly or reverse-engineer (This is list not the place to 
> debate whether or not this would fall under fair use or not)


Humph...  OS X sends me an event on a post card (OK, in an NSEvent), 
one it sends to everyone else who has a MacBook Air, and I'm not 
allowed to tell people what it says?  I agree that this isn't the 
place to debate what is and isn't reverse engineering, but the simple 
fact is that this isn't.

> Second, the discussion of private API is not appropriate to this 
> list.  That includes pointing to other resources. This has been the 
> policy for a long time now.


That's news. They've been discussed on this list sporadically for a 
long time, and this policy is news to me...

> Finally, if you have issues with these policies, the list is not the 
> place to discuss or debate them.  Contact the admin address in the 
> signature.


This list is, however, the place to discuss APIs that are of use and 
interest to Cocoa programmers, is it not?  Can you suggest a single 
other forum in which this information would be more useful or well 
targeted?

   Nicko