From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 21 00:23:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA02203 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:23:07 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA02170 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:22:08 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19157; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:21:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA22225 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:21:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA07682 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:58:44 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504210658.IAA07682@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:58:44 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504210250.HAA10345@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 21, 95 07:50:54 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 633 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > How about decompiling the SCO driver ? Russian copyright law explicitly > allows decompiling of software for studying the interface of > hardware or software. Huuh! Use this right as long as you can. :-) Remember Terry's note about `cleanrooming'. *You*'re the guys who could provide people outside with the cleanroomed interface descriptions. I'm sure, Russia will get enough pressure from the western countries to adopt to the western copyright laws. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)