Am 16.06.2012 um 12:06 schrieb Simon Busch: > Am 15.06.2012 21:34, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: >> FSF has set up a new PowerVR SGX reverse engineering project >> proposed by Luke K.C. Leighton. >> >> Since we have such a GPU in our GTA04 SoC (DM3730), I think there >> may be some interest here on this list to support this effort. >> >> The goal is to write free and open replacement drivers and firmware >> and maybe do fancy stuff with the GPU shader cores (signal and >> image processing). >> >> The mailing list is here: >> >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/powervr-devel > > The mailinglist is closed already cause of a possible lawsuit. Let me quote > Bob Ham:
No need to worry. Lawsuits are always possible, independently of what you do. Even if you do nothing :) Then, you may have to fight for years to finally prove that your work has been legal. I think it is just a precaution to reduce the low risk to almost zero. > > > The GNU lawyers have apparently stated that this PowerVR reverse > > engineering project should not be hosted by the GNU project (on > > savannah.nongnu.org) as there is a risk of the GNU project being the > > subject of a lawsuit. Yay for lawyers! > > > > Unfortunately, that means this mailing list is now closing. I > > apologise for the inconvenience. There will be another one soon on a different gnu host, i.e. the project is neither dead nor closed nor under any risk, as long as we stay to the permanently changing rules of reverse engineering [1]. BR, Nikolaus [1]: http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal/article/the-law-and-economics-of-reverse-engineering/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
