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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

I know you are not a lawyer but do you have a pointer or two?  As long
as we are REing for interoperability I've never read anything to
indicate the approach I described could be a problem even in the US.

Lee

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