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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:08:20 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "David Alderman" <DAVE@persprog.com>
Cc:        laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xircom cards - any experience? 
Message-ID:  <1695.813334100@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:55:49 EST." <206E12B27B9@novell.persprog.com> 

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> [...]                               If I remember correctly,  Xircom 
> claims you are violating their rights by reverse engineering their 
> interface specs.   [...]

At least for people inside the EU this is not the case, the EU has 
a directive that explicitly allows reverse engineering of "interfaces"
in case a spec or description isn't available.  :-)

Xircom has been on my blacklist ever since they misused the Crynwr source.

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