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Re: Porting drivers to other operating systems...

> I don't know how the APSL deals with code that's written with the Darwin code
> as a reference. That's why I'm asking :)

The magic incantations needed to make a piece of hardware work are rarely
copyrightable works in and of themselves; it doesn't matter whether you read
them from an easy-to-read source file or reverse-engineer them from a
binary. In Darwin's case, they can't really be considered trade secrets
either, so pretty much the only legal risk is that the hardware access
method is patented. You'll need an Apple engineer or a patent lawyer to
figure out the probability of that, but I'd guess that it's pretty low (in
this case).

IANAL, though.


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Marko Karppinen - http://homepage.mac.com/marko/
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