Re: [oc] legality of cores?!

["Prasanth Kumar" <kumar1@home.com>]

<snip>
> > Jim, you ask a good question.  However, I don't believe it is illegal to
use
> > information freely available in order to reverse engineer a processor.
As
> > long as no inside private information from ARM is used, it should be
legal.
> > AMD obviously makes a clone of the Intel processors and gets away with
it.
> > But it should be checked out as I am not a Lawyer (thank God).
>
> AMD must pay some royalties to Intel and I think Intel does this
> just because of that monopol law...
<snip>

>From what I understand, in the past, AMD had a cross-licensing agreement
with Intel after they spent years constantly suing each other. It was
basically
a truce after they found out only the lawyers were getting rich!

--
Prasanth