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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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