From: G. Gregory <ggregory@bitbox.co.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:02:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

RE: STB and S3 tech specs

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, David Waite wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: smaug@seqserv.seqnet.net [mailto:smaug@seqserv.seqnet.net]On
> > Behalf Of Sengan Baring-Gould
> >
> ---
> > Hmm... let me be very sceptical that they reverse engineered it from the
> > chip. Either that or it was a god-damn simple chip. If they did reverse
> > engineer it, I don't see why the .h file was such a help. As previously
> > stated: if you can hook into the kernel and see how it does stuff, you'll
> > be able to work out what the API is.
> 
> Right, except the license for the driver prohibits reverse engineering.
> Reverse engineer it, and you are liable to pay a few million once they get
> you in court.
> 
Well this would be a good time to say that in the European Union as far as
I know you are allowed to Reverse Engineer what you like. If not in the
whole EU at least in Britain you can. This I got from an expert in
Copyright and Patent Law ;-) So any KGI reverse engineering should be done
here then. 

Licenses for most software products are not worth the paper on which they
are printed. They are just bullying tactics.

Graeme

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Graeme Gregory                          | "god is a number you cannot
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