On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:59:21 +0100, Julian Bond wrote:The recent Slashdot article about the Linksys WRT54G running on I can feel the spectre of DMCA lurking in the shadows.
In this case, the DMCA might work to one's advantage, since from what I have been hearing, LinkSys and crew are in violation of the GPL, and these types of copyright violations are what the DMCA was crafted to protect.
The issue here about reverse engineering Broadcom Linux device drivers from MIPS to Intel may not be covered by the GPL. IANA-GPL-L but I would have thought binary device drivers could be shipped for Linux without requiring access to source. Which would make this separate from any GPL infringement for the rest of the system. So the relationship between the drivers and the proprietary hardware might well fall under DMCA.
But this is all speculation at the moment.
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