Lee Revell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:Let's hope the rev-eng people do it the right way, by having one team write a document, and a totally separate team write the driver fromthat document.
Isn't it also legal for a single person or team to capture all IO to/from the device with a bus analyzer or kernel debugger and write a driver from that, as long as you don't disassemble the original driver?
It's still legally shaky. The "Chinese wall" approach I described above is beyond reproach, and that's where Linux needs to be.
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