Dumping RTL???

[Richard Kenner]

    BTW, if there is a legal argument that means such a scenario is impossible,
    why not allow people to dump the RTL ?

A legal "argument" will not necessarily prevail in court since the opposing
side would have the opposite "argument".  This is an area of copyright law
that has not been ligitated yet so nobody can say for certain which way it
would go.

    There is something subtle I must be missing here...

You're missing it, but it's not that subtle and has been said before: if the
copyright holder were to provide such an interface, it could be used to argue
that using that interface was *not* a violation of the copyright.  In other
words, our legal position is far stronger without such an interface because
the fact that we haven't provided the interface it makes it clear that we, as
the copyright holders, do not view such activity as permissible.