Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:49:12 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. |
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:29:08AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > This is why it is legal to reverse engineer a binary driver to gain an > understanding of how the hardware operates, publish that information, > and then use that information to create new software to operate that > hardware.
Hardware is not a copyrightable work.
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