On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 08:04:30 +0000, Brad Salai wrote:
> 
> Say for example that some Linux code, possibly a header file had
> information about a bunch of registers that you needed to make some
> hardware work. You can take the information, the location of the
> registers, and anything else factual, from the Linux code and use them
> to write NetBSD code without infringing the copyright on the Linux code,
> as long as you don't take anything expressive, which would include
> comments in most cases, and any actual code that was present (although
> you can take the ideas included in the code). 

Just FYI, this is basically what's happening in the effort of bringing
IDE support to NetBSD/mac68k.

Ken