Re: [gNewSense-users] ubuntu/media/gspcav1 full of hex tables

[Sam Geeraerts]

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?