On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:31, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 5/18/05, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The real threat is that this project will become permanently mired > > unproductive debate, leaving a total of two workers doing whatever > > small amount of work actually gets done. Look at the Freenet project > > to see an example of that. The Freenet project started much like this > > one, with some real talent involved, but all the talent left > > eventually. > > And to avoid the debate, some people are going to have to put up with > terms they don't like. And the truth is, it's already that way on > both sides. I believe that means we've found the best solution. :)
And I've tried to make a drawing out of it. See http://nova.student.utwente.nl/~lourens/gfx/opengraphics/artifacts.png I've made a few assumptions, and of course there may be errors and omissions, so please correct me if I'm wrong. For the sake of conversation, I've dubbed the company OGI. Blue stuff is created by OGI together with the community, and released under a GPL/MPL alike system. Just like Netscape provided the base for Mozilla and Sun provided the base for OpenOffice, OGI provides the base for those things. They can then be extended together with the community. OGI keeps the right to make proprietary products from these things (hence the GPL/Prop. designation), just like Netscape makes Netscape from Mozilla sources and Sun makes StarOffice from OpenOffice sources. In particular, it makes a Verilog translation (shown in green) of the software model of the 3D renderer (I'm not sure this wouldn't be a derived work; let's be safe as well as consistent and put the software model under a dual licence as well), combines that with the other bits, and creates a bitstream file (red) that people can load into their FPGAs to create a fully functional video card. They don't have to use the proprietary bitstream though, they can put the open stuff together with other open HDL and create their own bitstreams (also red) using the Xilinx WebPack. OGI also designs an ASIC based on the same code as the full bitstream. Drivers are fully free and can be shared between an ASIC card (orange) and an FPGA card (also orange) with the proprietary bitstream. Lourens
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