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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 07:50:54 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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> > someone just told me they were working on a digiboard driver
> > bit didn't know about the linux driver..
> > (one of our russian friends.. (was it andrew?)
> > anyhow, 
> > hopefully the linux driver helps..
> > 
> 
> The Linux driver is copyleft and (allegedly) doesn't exploit all
> of the features.  I'm real hesitant about looking at the Linux
> driver until we're sure that no one is going to sign an NDA with
> Digi and write a complete object-only driver.

How about decompiling the SCO driver ? Russian copyright law explicitly
allows decompiling of software for studying the interface of
hardware or software.


		Serge Babkin

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