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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tomek LECOCQ <tomek.lecocq@hotmail.fr>
Cc: "kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: How to reverse engineer a PCI-Express driver under Linux ?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:31:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YD9XaFCIlsDqVFPH@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD4B5CA0-0234-4332-B7B4-D8C6480BD67E@hotmail.fr>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:18:18AM +0000, Tomek LECOCQ wrote:
> Also, the long term goal of this project would be to have this driver merged into mainline, so what is allowed or not while doing this to avoid problematic legal ramifications ?

Please do not ask programmers legal questions, would you ask your
medical doctor kernel programming questions?

If you have legal questions about doing this sort of thing, please
contact a lawyer, don't trust random people on a public mailing list on
the internet for advice.

good luck!

greg k-h

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03  9:18 How to reverse engineer a PCI-Express driver under Linux ? Tomek LECOCQ
2021-03-03  9:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2021-01-14 12:41 Tomek LECOCQ

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