Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

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 from

that 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.

	Jeff


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