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

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

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:44 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lee Revell:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Are we still reverse-engineering for interoperability when we
> essentially want to duplicate a piece of software with identical
> purpose? 8-)
> 

I would think that any reverse engineering to make a Linux driver falls
under interoperability because it's the only way to make the hardware
work with my OS.

Lee

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