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> these standards explicitly prohibited their use in implementing any open source implementation of the standards Is that legally enforceable? IANAL, but that
by kelnos 4mo ago
> these standards explicitly prohibited their use in implementing any open source implementation of the standards
Is that legally enforceable? IANAL, but that feels dubious to me. Feels like there should be a way around that.
- NoahZuniga 4mo agoprobably enforceable via patents.
- 0xbadcafebee 4mo agoIf you make a thing and copyright it, you get to dictate terms. But the legal alternative would be a clean room implementation. The implementation team never saw the standard, so it's not being used.
- cpgxiii 4mo agoYeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer to work with and easier to debug than the terrible vendor SDKs).