Re: Webcam and IM
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:37:17AM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:07 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > On 05-07-2005 19:42, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:17 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > >>On 05-07-2005 18:40, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > > cool, that'll be very useful. out of interest, whats controversial?
>
> > A good short intro is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/137824/
>
> ah, yes, judging from the patch, the author who reverse engineered this
> in the 1st plasce obviously just copied some tables directly out of the
> rom and didn't understand what they were. Thats certainly an issue.
> Howver the standard issue of copyright not pertaining well to the
> digital domain comes in here. what happens then if *i* then read the
> code, that table, derive their meaning, and recode them in a meaningful
> form? ;)
That's generally also frowned upon. However, if you read that table,
derive its meaning, write an explanation about it, and someone else
writes the code, *only* using your explanation, you're usually on
safe ground, as long as you don't violate and patents =/
But IANAL, and all that...
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Regards: David Weinehall
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