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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by megous on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:12AM (#39561431)
Legal aspects of something that can never happen? Why?

Try legal aspects of reverse engineering a binary driver. That's more realistic.

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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by fps_doug on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:37AM (#39562182)
It's hypothetical. There is no difference between those two scenarios, we could also just assume the hacker pulled it out of their ass...
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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by megous on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:02PM (#39584518)
Fine, but it's useless then.
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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by iforgotpassword on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:14PM (#39564799)
But the question is not whether it's legal to reverse engineer a binary. The question is whether someone with no affiliation to neither the HDMI forum nor AMD could contribute the according code to the AMD driver which is part of the Linux Kernel, regarding legal implications.

Reverse engineering of binaries is pretty much a solved problem from the legal standpoint.

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