Bug#383465: Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:12:17PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The nv driver appears to be heavily obfuscated and is effectively 
> The idea that nvidia do not posess an electronic list of register names 
> and offsets is entirely implausible. The only rational explanation is 
> that register information is postprocessed out in order to reduce 
> information leakage. 

Or that nVidia never wrote the driver in the first place. I cannot find any
nVidia copyrights on it -- it seems to have been reverse-engineered and then
written up by the current copyright holders.

> The shipped code is certainly not the preferred form for modification

TBH, I don't think there is any other form in existence, unless you want to
count the proprietary drivers this probably was reverse engineered from at
some distant past.

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