On 3/5/06, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:03:22PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > > I think an argument could be made that the register spec for OGA is > > just a list of facts, and you can't copyright that. Anything based on > > that, whether that be another chip or a driver for our chip, is not > > affected by the copyright license for the chip. > > The document which specifies OGA could be copyrighted. Other > standards bodies do exactly that, and charge prohibitive prices for copies. > But that would be contrary to OGP's objectives.
Yes, the document could be copyrighted. And in fact, it will be. How we license it is unlikely to create any significant restrictions for anyone, although we may find some way to make some small amount of money from it. Perhaps we'll do free downloads but charge money for hard copies or something. But just as when you pay to have a copy of the PCI spec, that copyright protection doesn't apply to anything you build that conforms to that spec. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
