I was trying to stay out of that debate but life isn't fair. So here my two cents worths. Keep the RTL put it in an escrow when it will be finish, so at a later date or when a certain amount of money will be made it's released. Allow acces (via a secure CVS, subversion , whatever)to key developper in the mailing-list who want to help and know verilog.
To the people who want the RTL to be GPL from start to finish, as I have said before life isn't fair. I would like to see a version 2 or 3 or 1000 of the OGP and if that mean a period of time where the design is not GPL so be it. It's already more than we have right now from anywhere else, programmer are normally asking for documentation and white paper on how to use the component, they will have the doc and whitepaper. The RTL some would like to have it to do their own thing, you're going to have the base to do it : PCI and VGA core. The rest, you know how to do it if you want to do a project. If you would like to help on the OGP core, if it's as I suggested you will be able to do so. Now let's the fun begin! Timothy Miller wrote: >Release early, release often, they say. Same goes for documents, >sometimes. I'm working on an open letter to publish on the topic of >open-sourcing the RTL. I've borrowed heavily from everyone who has >contributed to the conversation, usually without attribution (I hope >you don't mind). I would like to invite editorial comments. It's an >early draft, so it's poorly written and poorly structured. Feel free >to suggest rearrangements, edits, rewrites, additions, deletions, >citations, etc. > > > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
