Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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
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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:17:35 -0500
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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

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