Daniel Mack wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:23 PM, David Brownell wrote: > >> I pointed this out to Philips a while back, but they didn't >> seem to believe me. They may well have some serious legal >> mis-understandings going over there. > > > They can still hand out some piece of code to you, show you that > their hardware works but force you not to make it public, can't they? > > Not that this makes any sense at all, but I've seen many companies > doing such nasty stuff. > > And if this is the case with the ISP176x driver written by Philips, > that would be reason enough to re-implement it with a proper licencing. > > Daniel > I am probably being a bit naive here, and thinking out load. Wouldn't an open source driver for this chip benefit Philips more than a closed driver ? And I don't know for certain, but what David says seems to make sense.
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