Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 07:26:09PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: Sure. That's ok. I was more thinking of someone reading the existing firmware sources, writing a spec and a second person/group implementing the new free firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the spec

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:44:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver writes: Or do you think it would be ok if the same people read the existing non-free sources and reimplement its functionality in a new free firmware? As long as they don't copy any protected code you'll

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: As long as they don't copy any protected code you'll be fine. Wouter Verhelst writes: That's the problem, I'm afraid. It's not unlikely that you'll have this 'great idea' which in reality is something you remember from reading the original source, but not remembering that this is the

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:11:38 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: Hi, Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for the Tigon II chip. I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking at the

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:13:57PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:11:38 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: Hi, Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for the Tigon II

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:26:09 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: [...] Sure. That's ok. I was more thinking of someone reading the existing firmware sources, writing a spec and a second person/group implementing the new free firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the spec

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking at the datasheet (http://alteon.shareable.org/firmware-source/12.4.13/tigonbk.pdf.bz2) it doesn't seem to be a very complicated chip to code for. I'm not sure however, how to handle the development in such a way

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver writes: I was more thinking of someone reading the existing firmware sources, writing a spec and a second person/group implementing the new free firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the spec writers should be different people/groups. You can do that

acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
Hi, Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for the Tigon II chip. I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking at the datasheet