Eugen Leitl wrote:
This mutually assured destruction stalemate very effectively prevents any of the parties volunteering with opensourcing their drivers, and in fact allows any open source drivers infringing on above IP (clean-room reverse engineered, or not: try to prove a negative to anyone
with deeper pockets than you, in court) to be destroyed by litigation.
In any case clean-room reverse engineering is not a defense against patent infringement, only against copyright infringement.
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--Per Bothner
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