Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Apr 2006 14:34 UTC, submitted by Soulbender
"Gray and Bergamini recently worked together to develop the nfe driver to support NVIDIA ethernet controllers. In this interview, they talk about OpenBSD's policy to not ship binary-blobs, explaining the problems associated with drivers that use these blobs and the affect these types of drivers have on the open source community. They also detail the efforts involved in writing the nfe driver, describing why they started the project, how they were able to support undocumented hardware, and the features supported by the new driver."
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2005-07-07
Damien Bergamini explains in this interview that they only get the hardware specifications but they didn't use same algorhytms or such things; so this should be legal.
Also, AFAIK the OpenBSD project isn't settled in the USA, so they don't have to watch for a company suing this project, because in most non-US countries reverse-engineering is AFAIK legal.