Torgeir Veimo writes: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:34, Alan Cox wrote: > > > NB: some people recommend *against* looking at those drivers for > > > legal reasons, if you want to develop your own. You have to > > > make up your own mind about that; I've googled but found nothing > > > conclusive. Well, if nothing else they may burn your eyes and > > > fry your brain. ;-) See > > > > Its a common approach - the risk is you might use their code by > > accident. Really you should have two [teams of] people. The first > > documents the functionality of the card (not the driver), the second > > writers a driver to that spec. > > I have heard second hand that connexant approved creating GPL drivers by > people who had seen the initial drivers. It would be good to see it in > writing though. Do they own the company which produces the encoder/decoder chips? The PCI config posted here said "Internext Compression Inc.". Otherwise this statement can only be related to the older PVR card. Ralph
