From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 20 8:54:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF2137BFEE for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 08:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12MZcl-0002Li-0W; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:54:23 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA55685; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:56:45 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:54:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? In-Reply-To: <38B01918.DE26DBB3@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > > > 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. > > The U.S. Supreme Court made this exactly ruling one or two weeks ago. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I'm not intending to spend the time necessary to reverse-engineer specs for this thing. Besides I swapped the card with a colleague for one which works... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message