PROMs and Copyrights...

[Charles Brooks]

I think it goes along the lines of taking an existing patented design and making
an "improvement" on it. Which is NOT a violation of the law, and in fact is done
by large corporations ALL THE TIME. I have a former patent attorney for a
coworker, I'll ask him what he thinks on Monday.

Charles Brooks



Mike wrote:

> I know this is a stupid question and it's not directly EFI-related, but can
> someone educate me on the legalities, specifically, copyrights and
> software/firmware,  associated with reading OEM PROMs, "reverse engineering"
> them and even on "publishing" findings on, say, one's web page? Does reading
> the PROM not constitute making a copy of the firmware? Is this automatically
> "illegal"?