Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:29:08AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> This is why it is legal to reverse engineer a binary driver to gain an 
> understanding of how the hardware operates, publish that information, 
> and then use that information to create new software to operate that 
> hardware.

Hardware is not a copyrightable work.

  OG.
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