Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:41:22 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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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.
Jeff
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