Re: [Line6linux-devel] Opened a support ticket with Line6

[L. A. G. <agi...@sy...>]

El 28/11/2012 23:30, Markus Grabner escribió:
> One thing he was curious about is how I found out the protocol by which host
> and device communicate with each other. He told me that it's ok for them if we
> use USB analyzing tools to observe the traffic (which is what I did), but
> reverse engineering the driver by inspecting the machine code is prohibited by
> the Line6 software license. Though the term "reverse engineering" is somewhat
> ambiguous, it might trigger undesired emotions in the context of asking for
> help :-)

Ahhh, I see. I used the 'reverse engineering' as the general term of 
'making something work using (in some way) a working instance and trying 
to replicate its behavior'. Didn't know that it could trigger bad feelings.

>
> I don't know if you can alter the ticket, but if you can, it might be a good
> idea to make clear that we didn't violate their license.

I've been able to "add a message" to the ticket, clarifying that when I 
referred to reverse engineering I meant using USB analyzing tools, not 
disassembling their binary code.

Hope that helps :)


Regards,
L. Alberto Giménez