Philip, I am also not a lawyer, but to my limited understanding, the license mainly says: 1. Do not use this, or attempt to port this software to any non-TI chip. It must be used only on TI hardware. 2. Do not use this software for assisting in design, development or verification of a non-TI device. 3. You can distribute the source as long as you don't change the license. 4. You can distribute binaries also as long as they are for TI hardware.
There may be more that I don't understand fully, but I believe this is the crux of it. Some advantages of using DSP/BIOS Link instead of DSP Gateway: 1. DSPLink is already available pre-ported to Davinci - DM6446. 2. It is also available on other TI platforms (e.g. Davinci HD - DM6467). Minimum to no changes are needed in your application source if you move between platforms. 3. It is under active development and will be available on future TI SoC platforms also. 4. It automatically makes other TI collateral that is built over DSPLink available to you ... E.g. Codec Engine 5. DSP Gateway is not available (as far as I know) on 64x based platforms. That means that you need to do the port, and you need to resolve DSP cache coherence issues yourself during your port (which we have already done when porting DSPLink between OMAP5912, which is 55x based, to DM6446, which is 64x based). Regards, Mugdha -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Balister Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 3:11 AM To: Dirk Behme Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: DSP link license Dirk Behme wrote: > Philip Balister wrote: >> I am downloading dsplink 1.5.0 in hopes of getting it build in Open >> Embedded. I tried to read the license carefully to understand it, but >> apparently you need to be a lawyer to understand it. >> >> I gather I can't distribute the source. Can I: >> >> 1) Distribute binaries built from the dsplink source? >> 2) Anyone have a short form plain English description of the license? > > Slightly off-topic, and mainly designed for OMAP ARM & DSP, maybe you > like to have a look to DSP Gateway > > http://dspgateway.sourceforge.net/pub/index.php This would be great! Does anyone know what would be involved getting this running for the davinci kernel? How well does it work in the existing processors? Philip _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
