Tom Haynes writes:
> Are there any legal ramifications in open sourcing the le(7D) driver?
>
> I don't see any non-Sun copyrights in the Solaris 9 code for it.
It's not just the copyrights listed in the code.
You have to check:
- whether someone omitted or improperly removed a copyright that
should have been there.
- whether the code itself was based on either code or information
(such as hardware manufacturer documentation) that is itself
encumbered.
As well as potentially other things, such as the people who worked on
it, depending on the situation. It's no small matter, and the older
the code in question, the more difficult the effort. (And the deader
the hardware, the less reason to bother spending Sun's money that way.
10Mb-only Ethernet? Who cares?)
> Is it as simple as someone inside Sun pushing requests/documentation through
> channels to
> free this up?
>
> I'm willing to drive that effort if someone points me in the right
> direction...
Talk with Bonnie Corwin.
Good luck. I'd like to see us dump this old stuff like this into a
museum-quality gate for those who feel the need to use it, but the
work required isn't small.
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