On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | On Wednesday 02 April 2008 11:07:47 Andy Green wrote: > |> There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could theoretically anyway be > |> possible we can write detailed header files for an open driver which > |> contain register and bitfield enums and comments for the 3D unit. If > we > |> did write our own we would certainly have to do this anyway and > |> presumably it is okay by whatever agreement exists (but surprises are > |> the norm here). > | > | How about the 7) developer to become a new OM "employee" and thus gets > access > | (unpaid intern or something like that, if nothing else) to the OM > license? > > I think we have to be seen to take care about the spirit of the > agreement as well as the letter or the consequences could be negative > all around. > > But the agreement must allow for transcription of the information into a > FOSS driver because otherwise there'd be no point. So this would be a > "way through it" rather than a "way around it". No one has suggested it yet, but could this be a Summer of Code project? Harald's note seemed to indicate that the product of such an effort would be an open-source driver, and documentation to assist in writing of other drivers. I'm not sure if this would be close enough to the spirit, though. Could this be a way through it too? Gerald
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