Keith Packard wrote: > > > > Around 12 o'clock on Aug 21, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Fonseca wrote: > > > Keith, I assume that you have received permission to redistribute these > > documents. Do you think that the BCI tech ref could be also > > redistributable? (Max Lingua already has that one). > > I really don't recall where those documents came from; it was long before I > joined the XFree86 project, so I'm sure I didn't sign any kind of NDA for > them. Given what I now know about S3's policy, I suspect they were > inappropriately redistributed at the time, so I've made them inaccessible > again. > > I'd forgotten they were on my web site. Too much disk space can be a > dangerous thing. I was under the impression that XFree86 had an NDA with > S3 covering this documentation. If so, you need only apply for > "membership" in XFree86. "Membership" is a formal relationship with > XFree86 which permits the redistribution of material covered by various > old NDAs that XFree86 used to have with hardware manufacturers; most > current vendors use other methods to keep their designs private. > > Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab
Hi Keith, Sounds reasonable. Personally, I have documents from S3 (prior to their being purchased by Via) which I acquired outside an NDA. I consider them to be freely redistributable. Since that time I contacted S3Graphics/Via and was informed that an NDA was required, but that source code was distributable (the NDA is _a lot_ more wordy than this!) So, anything acquired after that date I consider only sharable with people under an S3Graphics NDA, or those who signed an S3 NDA and still consider it binding (xfree86.) -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
