On 10/31/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Person C creates a driver knowing with properly names defines and comments explaining why he does what and where to easily readable structures of the register mappings of the hardware. Person C then goes and obfuscates the code into putting seemingly random values into seemingly random addresses. Person C still uses his unobfuscated code to makes changes but only releases the obfuscated version under GPL.
Note that the actions described could have a different intent behind them: backwards compatibility with older hardware. More generally, backwards compatibility might look like obfuscation, to people who are not familiar with the older systems. [It tends to be a case of "there's something going on here which does not make sense."] -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
