Idea to help notebook users

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:27:53AM -0300, Adilson Oliveira wrote:
>> As I said, I don't know the legal implications that would have but would
>> be an interesting and simple way to fix a lot of known problems.
>> Let me know if it makes any sense or if I need to go to bed earlier  :)
> 
> There are some questions about whether modified DSDTs are redistributable.
> It would depend on the terms under which the DSDT is licensed by the
> copyright holder, and whether those terms are specific to you as the end
> user.

This could be solved by providing a "patch" instead of distributing the
whole DSDT, i.e:
1. Generate checksum of DSDT.
2. Look it up in database.
3. If patch is available, get current DSDT, patch it and save it for
loading during boot.

IMO this would solve copyright issues as in most countries it is legal
to decompile in order to provide interoperability and the patch requires
user to have legal, original version. But IANAL.

	Krzysztof Lichota


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