On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:23:45 -0500
Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/5/05, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > BTW: is there anything in the board design we can help with?
> > Like reviewing it or something like that?
>
> Yes, when Andy's done with the layout, we're going to ask list members
> review it.
Good.
> But we may not publish it to everyone just yet. It'll be under an
> LGPL license, but we don't have to publish the "source" (diagrams)
> until we sell our first board. It's a competitive advantage
> (potentially) to only let a few list members, under NDA, be the ones
> to review it before production.
Fine with me. Just make sure that the NDA is not tainting :)
> You're going to see this as a repeating pattern with Traversal. There
> are often advantages to keeping trade secrets, so we're going to push
> the boundaries of open source licenses sometimes. For instance, the
> GPU will be under GPL, but not until some time (certainly less than a
> year) after the ASICs go into production. The IP for the OGD board
> will be released "immediately", with the caveat being that not all of
> it will be online until we have shipped our first batch of orders.
>
> We also reserve the right to change our minds and release even earlier
> than that. :)
Be carefull here. I can understand that you do not want to
give away all your assets, but delaying the release of the
code means also that noone is going to help you with it.
On the other hand, the response to help with the verilog
code hasn't been greate either :(
Attila Kinali
--
wer soviel schoggi isst, kann sowieso nicht dumm sein ;-)
-- Sandra
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