The problem is this: Ask a lawyer if arbitrary activity is a legal risk, they are always going to answer yes. After-all somebody can sue you for any reason what

The problem is this: Ask a lawyer if arbitrary activity is a legal risk, they are always going to answer yes. After-all somebody can sue you for any reason whatsoever. Without a strong counterballacing party to that point of view, the default is always going to be closed with a collective shrug from developers that tacitly accept the "legal realities". It will probly take a worm of sasser-like porportions on android to break this pattern of closed drivers that work on one 3 year old kernel that never get updated.