Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, 42Bastian Schick <bastian42@m...> 
wrote:
>
> Micron Engineering <micronpn@t...> schrieb am Thu, 17 Nov 2005 
22:54:55
> 
> > You really think that lawyers may see our source code? Yes ok if 
they
> > pay we may show it to them but if they can't say with absolute 
security
> > that you have infringed some patents or licenses they can't and 
in
> > embedded world (solid state flash to be more precise) is 
impossible to
> > recognize a part of object code as a part of source code 
illegally used.
> 
> It is not impossible. Every compiler has a certain foodprint and 
if I know
> my code I can compare it.
> If it is something very common like FATFS, it is maybe hard esp. 
as there
> aren't millions of ways to do it.
> But _I_ won't rely on the matter that a lawyer is not smart enough 
to trap
> me.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 42Bastian Schick
>

The usual way these things get going is a disgruntled former 
employee.  There is no need for forensic science to dismantle the 
chip or even a clever lawyer.  The DFE simply turns over a printed 
or machine readable copy of the code.