Preston L. Bannister writes:
> From: Nikolai Vladychevski
>> but if we reverse-engineer it , we still wouldn't be allowed to
>> put it in a source code, I'm right? If so, reversing stuff that
>> we already know would be very easy....
>
> Ronald(?) signed the NDA,
did you Ron? I know Eric did, but didn't know Ron also signed.....
> and the AMD knowledge he used to write
> that bit of code is covered by the NDA. So Ronald (or anyone else
> who had access to the AMD documentation under NDA) cannot legally
> make that bit of information publically available.
>
> On the other hand - if someone who did *not* sign an NDA with AMD
here I am :)
> could figure out how to write that code, then they would have met
> the legal definition of reverse engineering, and are not prevented
> from making that same information public.
I could place this docs on my web, it's just I didn't reverse anything yet
on AMD..... but my vacations are soon and I love dirty work.
However I have a doubt, in Microsof licenses for example, there is a
statements that explicitly say "you can not reverse engineering the
software" ..... I don't know if I could do this with BIOS, looks like I
can, because there is no license attached when you buy the motherboard, and
I can download a BIOS upgrade from the net without confirming any online
agreements and reverse, do what I please and publish what pleased..... i am
right?
Nikolai
