Re: [ros-dev] IP Policy

[Royce Mitchell III]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:

>  
> I don't have a problem with reverse engineering per se, but what we fail to
> do at the moment is use the information obtained from that in a clean room
> manner. I.e. at the moment the same person that looks at the object code
> also provides the ReactOS implementation. I think that's dangerous, I
> believe most (court) cases where reverse engineering was found acceptable
> were clean room cases. So I'd like to amend the IP policy with something
> like:
>
> If there is no other option than to reverse engineer/disassemble object
> code, the person who reverse engineered the code shall put his findings in a
> document describing the interface. That person can not implement the
> corresponding code in ReactOS, implementation shall be done by a different
> person (or group of persons), working only from the interface description.
>
> We can then keep the document in svn so we can present an audit trail if
> asked to produce one.
>
> GvG
>   
>  
+1