Re: [Dri-devel] mga/HALlib

[Peter P. <pet...@al...>]

> I guess that Matrox licensed stuff from another company which is somehow
> protected and which they can't open up to nda clauses. So the only thing
> they can do is provide the HALlib. Oh, wait, they could try to persuade
> the company from which they have licensed their technology from to open
> that up..... .

If thats not an odd arrangement if I ever saw one. Another company owns
right 
to a critical piece of their device driver. I wonder what where they
thinking
of when they struck that deal? :-)

> Or somebody has to reingeneer the stuff as long as it is legal to do so
> ?

Somebody outside the US wanna try it?  Reverse engineering in the US is
illegal
isn't it? 

Peter