Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 14:41:00 EST
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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