crap0101 wrote:
Hi!
checking kernel in section `/include/linux/mtd/' i've found the file
`cfi.h' that look like the mach64.h bug:
0) it has not licence, only the following lines:
/* Common Flash Interface structures
* See http://support.intel.com/design/flash/technote/index.htm
* $Id: cfi.h,v 1.57 2005/11/15 23:28:17 tpoynor Exp $
*/
that link is broken, howewer is still in archive.org at
http://web.archive.org/web/20010523021809/http://support.intel.com/design/flash/technote/index.htm
1) the specification can found at (original links are broken):
http://netwinder.osuosl.org/pub/netwinder/docs/nw/flash/cfi_1_1.pdf
but the licence sayd:
License: CFI Promoters and User each grant to the other and its
subsidiaries, under any claim of a patent or patent
application otherwise infringed, a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
non-transferable, world-wide license, without rights to
sublicense, to make or have made such party’s products which
comply with the CFI Specification solely in connection with
meeting the CFI Specification, and to use, sell, offer to sell,
and import such products, where infringement of such claims
would not have occurred but for the incorporation of the CFI
Specification in such products, and there is no feasible
alternative to such infringement.
2) besides (like AMD website, releated to the mach64.h bug), the
site-licence don't permit...anything:
(update)
http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm?iid=ftr+terms
(original form archive.org (is the same))
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205181100/developer.intel.com/sites/developer/tradmarx.htm
in the meantime i've rased a bug: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00243
what do ypu think?
thanks,
marco
If you have to go that far to dig up something that may be the
applicable license, I would say regular copyright applies and so it's
non-free. I think it's non-free even if that license applies (I've read
it 4 times, but I can't make much sense of it).
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