Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers.

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 00:08, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> All of the original code described how to make the hardware operate.  If
> your code makes the hardware operate, then it uses material copyrighted 
> and owned by me.

Really. You think if I read a GPL'd example of a piece of code I can't
write a non GPL'd one. Companies use two sets of people to ensure that
there are no questions (one set write the spec, the other to write from
that spec in a different building).

> I suggest you think real hard and long about your decisions to go about
> calling derived works from stolen/deleted Copyrights. 

Rude yes, but derived work.. open question. I guess Eben can give you a
reasonably sane opinion if its so important.