On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:13:01 Stefano Brivio wrote: > If you could put your efforts on writing specs for firmware operation > (i.e. not the instruction set, but what exactly does the firmware do) or > writing an open firmware based upon the info I listed above (you can do > that, there's an Italian 'fair use' law, so if you reverse engineer and code > together for compatibility purposes only, it's perfectly legal), it would be > just great. > > We are short on people here. I just can't do any reverse engineering because > I would get tainted (me too I live in Italy, but I'm working with other > people who are based elsewhere), same for Michael, and we couldn't go on > with driver development then. I'm willing to help with a firmware rewrite > (that wouldn't taint me, as long as I'm given clean specs), and your work > on reverse engineering would be greatly appreciated then.
That interoperability (or compatibility) clause also exists in Germany, but we decided to _not_ make use of it, as it's basically undefined what interoperability is. And I don't want to trigger the precedence case at court for this. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
