Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:54:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201653200.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <38B01918.DE26DBB3@newsguy.com>
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > > > Well Doug, > > > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may > > disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you > > need to program the driver. > > > > For once, a cool law in Europe. > > The U.S. Supreme Court made this exactly ruling one or two weeks ago. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I'm not intending to spend the time necessary to reverse-engineer specs for this thing. Besides I swapped the card with a colleague for one which works... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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