On Sul, 2005-01-16 at 23:17, Richard Purdie wrote: > On the subject of patents, the whole idea behind SD is that there aren't > patents as for a patent to exist, we'd have some publicly available > information on how SD works. We're not breaking any copyrights as I nobody > involved with this code has see any code to copy from. > > So in short, I can't see any reason we can't put the code we have into the > kernel...
Given that companies like Intel have been published the SD initialisation sequences since 2002 and nobody has taken any action I can't see this as being credibly a trade secret or obtained maliciously. Nor does the document state anything is secret. See Intel app note 278533-001 "Using SDCard and SDIO with Intel (r) PXA250 Applications Processor MMC Controller" http://www.intel.com/design/pca/applicationsprocessors/applnots/278533-001.htm If there were any secrets the owners appear to have failed to take any action neccessary to defend them. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
