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> > Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.
>
> United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f)
>
> My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the
> software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the
> software for the purpose of achiving interoperability. Therefore, if you
> own a piece of hardware, and you have no driver for the hardware, or the
> driver provided is not acceptable, you have the right to reverse engineer
> the firmware in order to write your own driver, thereby achiving
> interoperability.
Exactly the same in Europe, only the sharing parts are new for me.
The difference seems to be:
The problem is that in the US, it is legal to override this with the
licensing conditions. In Europe this right is inalienable.
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