Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> This sounds like a issue for the drivers community, nothing the OGB
> needs to be involved with. The only advice I have is you will need
> to be very careful to ensure you only copy documents for which you
> have permission from the creators, to make sure you are not violating
> either copyright or non-disclosure agreements. Just because you can
> download it freely doesn't mean you can republish it.
>
This last comment has me concerned. I've always assumed that I could
repost a document that I downloaded off the Internet, assuming that I
didn't agree to anything stating otherwise beforehand.
Now I'm not so sure.
Some of the documents I have lack any marking indicating copyright, were
pulled down from public FTP sites, and are for chips made by companies
that are no longer in existence.
Anyone more familiar with the rules are for republishing? Do you have
to have explicit permission to republish/repost?
-- Garrett
> -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> It occurs to me that many things are often written for OpenSolaris,
>> using data sheets which may be public. However, it is not uncommon for
>> chip vendors to remove or relocate data sheets such that the data sheet
>> used to write a driver vanishes after some time.
>>
>> I think it would be very useful to have a public repository of data
>> sheets which were obtained publicly (without any click thru agreements
>> or such, and certainly not under NDA!) and which were used in Solaris
>> device drivers so that future maintainers can be assured of having
>> reference materials available when possible.
>>
>> I actually have such data sheets for a few of the parts whose drivers
>> I've worked on, and I'd be happy to start such a repository.
>>
>> What do folks think? And how would these best be handled? As a project
>> underneath the device-drivers community, perhaps?
>>
>> -- Garrett
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