On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: [...]
With the way DirectPlay works, we could provide our own provider and a compatible provider if we so wanted (at least, to the extent of my knowledge).
IMHO we should saves ourselves some work and only do the compatible provider since it will be needed anyway.
True. but how does that sit with respect to reverse engineering? Any potential legal issues?
Presumably not since this is essentially how Samba is being developped
Good point, do they adhere to any rules / procedures to ensure legality?
I think the following articles are a pretty nice description of how they work:
* How Samba was written by Andrew Tridgell http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
* Myths About Samba by Andrew Tridgell http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050205010415933