From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 20 7:40:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DB2A37BE91 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 4091 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Feb 2000 15:40:30 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:40:30 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Doug Rabson , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <20000220164030.A94862@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: <20000220024926.B81021@rohrbach.de> <20000220160400.H79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000220160400.H79013@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jeroen, could you give us some more details on that law, perhaps some pointers to documents - i could have our law department check that out /k Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai(asmodai@wxs.nl)@Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100: > -On [20000220 14:14], Doug Rabson (dfr@nlsystems.com) wrote: > >On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > >> i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio > >> chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 > >> soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same result. do they actually > >> read their mail or is this an uncommon thing in .jp? > > > >I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which > >completely misunderstood what I was asking and assumed I wanted the > >source code to their windows driver. My reply explaining that I really > >just wanted documentation went unanswered. Sigh. > > Well Doug, > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may > disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you > need to program the driver. > > For once, a cool law in Europe. > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] > Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project > Religion... Is the opium of the people... -- > "Her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest > in a yak." -- Woody Allen http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message