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Originally Posted by dsmid
Long story short, I cannot find anything that would prohibit copying additional certificate to Kindle system partition.
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Two points:
In this country (USA), software and the data are two different critters.
I do not see anything in the quotes (or the "legal" files on my Kindle) about data files.
And, as dsmid points out, we are only storing another data file in the device's file system.
So even if Amazon could manage to extended their published terms to include the data files shipped in the device's file system;
It would not matter, we are not disturbing the files provided by Amazon.
Another note:
All of the strong language about "reverse engineering" - -
Some of our modifications do "interface" with Amazon's non-public system - -
But in this country (USA) which is the country of the laws controlling Amazon's property -
The "interface" to a system is public and the owner/user has a right to use it.
Even if un-documented . . .
Even if the characteristics of that interface have to be determined by "reverse engineering".
(The "reverse engineering" can not be published, but the interface details so determined may be.)
The above was a (famous) court decision back in the days of "protected" game cartridges.