On 5/17/05, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy wrote: > > And that is one of the primary reasons that I plan on releasing it > > under GPL, at an appropriate time. > > Daniel wrote: > > Just for the record: I'm really pleased to hear this, and it could very > > well help land some project financing. When the GPL RTL is available, > > we can also expect to see a number of experienced hardware hackers join > > the project. > > I'm hoping that Timothy and his partners and investors will be willing > to make the RTL available *before* it is GPL'd to hardware hackers that > have a serious interest in contributing to the project, under a non-GPL > license that doesn't allow public distribution. If there is a serious > commitment to releasing under the GPL by a certain date (especially if > there is escrow), that should provide sufficient access for people to > start contributing.
With an NDA, this should be fine. Of course, there's a risk of it getting leaked if too many people get it, so even with the NDA, it shouldn't be free; this way, only serious people get it, and I believe there are some legal reasons why a contract is more binding when money is exchanged (something about 'consideration'), but IANAL. In any event, what should it cost? And it would be easier to roll the 'hobbyist' and 'commercial' license into one, where the up-front fee isn't too bad in either case, and there's also a royalty for each chip you produce. Suggestions? > > I know VHDL reasonably well, and have perhaps learned enough Verilog > to be dangerous. Although I'm very interested in the project, I doubt > that I will personally have time to invest in working on the RTL code. > I'm certainly looking forward to buying both the FPGA platorm and the > ASIC-based cards. Probably several of the former and a dozen of the > latter. > > Eric Smith > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
