[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