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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] ubuntu/media/gspcav1 full of hex tables |
Date: | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:54:55 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080420) |
Peter and Jesse wrote:
I have contacted the copyright holders for ubuntu/media/gspcav1/Vimicro/cs2102.h. I have received the following: "These values are reverse engineered the usb protocole between the webcam and a windoze box." I don't think it make sense to try to contact the authors of every file. cs2102.h seems to be one of the most hex-intensive files, so if it is reverse-engineered, I think that similar files probably are as well. I am inclined to mark these as free. Comments? Peter Stevenson
Good enough for me. It might be a good idea to add that response in the wiki comment for that file.
This is a good one to remember for the hex/firmware/blob rules of thumb I suggested a few days ago. But what rule of thumb could be extracted from this? "Communication with a USB device is probably reverse engineered, which makes the code free", perhaps?
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