From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, "M." <vo.sinh@gmail.com>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:44:43 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1133898911.29084.25.camel@mindpipe> (Lee Revell's message of
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* 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-)
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