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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Developing a Linux driver using a USB sniffer
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 06:10:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505131031.GA3774@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53677EC6.2070208@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:06:30PM +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
> Hi all,
> can someone please tell me if it is legal to develop an USB driver 
> analysing the USB protocol with a USB sniffer?
> Can this driver be made public under GPL?

Would you ask a doctor for legal advice?  If not, why ask a programmer?
If you have legal questions, ask a lawyer in your country, they are the
only ones that can give you a definitive answer.

good luck,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 12:06 Developing a Linux driver using a USB sniffer Luca Ellero
2014-05-05 12:50 ` Tovo Rabemanantsoa
2014-05-05 13:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-05-05 20:39 ` Dave Hylands
2014-05-06 14:00   ` Luca Ellero
2014-05-06 15:31 ` Eric Fowler

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