Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Lee Revell
2005-12-06T23:16:47Z

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:44 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lee Revell:
>
> > I know you are not a lawyer but do you have a pointer or two? As long
> > as we are REing for interoperability I've never read anything to
> > indicate the approach I described could be a problem even in the US.
>
> Are we still reverse-engineering for interoperability when we
> essentially want to duplicate a piece of software with identical
> purpose? 8-)
>

I would think that any reverse engineering to make a Linux driver falls
under interoperability because it's the only way to make the hardware
work with my OS.

Lee