Not necessarily, although I admit I'm not a legal expert (let alone an international one). You are right that CRRE is mostly about specification, input/output parameters and such. However, if a certain source code solely uses 3rd party calls (in this case the BIOS) to perform a certain task, I doubt whether that can be covered by the GPL, as the called software is not GPL. But I admit the whole 'derived works' and stuff is pretty complicated.skyking wrote:The idea with cleanroom reverse engineering is that the person who study the original does not reveal the algorithm, but just specification - in that case the information to the developer will be that the function has to determine the amount of available memory (back to square one)
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