Messages in this thread |  | | From | bofh@snoopy ... | Date | Mon, 09 Dec 96 13:20:02 +1100 | Subject | Re: Genius B105 handscanner driver |
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> Most software licenses say you can't disassemble their code, > but many companies have NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements) that they > will make you sign before they give you technical information about > their products.
>It has been proven in U.S. courts that disassembling a driver to learn how a >piece of hardware works is legal.
You mean to say that someone has won a case and set a precedent. However such precedents don't mean much in other countries and we don't want to have US and international versions of the Linux kernel...
Also it takes money to win a law suit. If someone is willing to spend $100K to sue a Linux developer then who is going to pay for the defence?
Russell Coker
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