No child here, I'm not stuck or using double standards. Just the law.
People can share instructions on how they can change this or that for free. Because they are not making a profit and creating and selling anything to others they don't own. Because of that, it's not illegal to share free instructions.
That said. Selling someone else's property or selling a tool to can create a "Derivative work" from someone else's copy written work. Is not the same.
What CBX and you have been doing is not considered a "New Work". Because it's not different enough from the original copy written software after the ("Hack") percentage wise. To be considered or construed in any court of law as a "New Work" or AKA an original work. Because of that, it's a unauthorized "Derivative work". Created without permission, from the original copyright holders work and no ownership can be claimed by CBX or anyone doing the same for that matter, due to that fact. You have no legal right, to sell it or create
tools for sale that can produce a "Derivative work" from it. Because the original copy written work is not yours to sell even with minor modifications.
I quote:
"
What does a copyright authorize the copyright owner to do, or to restrict others from doing?
Subject to certain limitations, a copyright owner has the exclusive right to:
•reproduce the work by making copies of it;
•distribute copies of the work to the public by sale, donation, rental, or lending;
•prepare new works derived from the original (for example, a novel adapted into a play, or a translation, or a musical arrangement); and
•publicly perform or display the work.
Anyone who does any of these things without authorization infringes the copyright and can be liable to the copyright owner for damages.
In some cases, in lieu of proving actual damages, the copyright owner can recover statutory damages of up to $30,000, or up to $150,000 if the infringement was willful, for the infringement of a work. Infringement can also be a crime, punishable by fine or imprisonment."
From:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/pages/copyright-and-fair-use
I will do my best here one last time. To help you try to comprehend what a "Derivative work" based on copy written work owned by someone else is. When it's created without the copyright owners permission to do so. By supplying this link. I can't make or force you read any of this however:
Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations
It matters little if you don't sell the firmware outright and simply sell a tool that modifies the firmware. Because the end result produced by the sold tool is a "Derivative work" of someone else's copy written code being produced by the tool being sold. Without the sold tool that "Derivative work" of someone else's copy written code would not have been produced.
Again. People can share instructions on how they can change this or that for free. Because they are not making a profit and creating and selling anything to others they don't own. Because of that, it's not illegal to share free instructions.
Don
