On 12/15/07, Stephen Pollei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cast my vote for nasm, because it's the one I have installed, and I > > don't have gas. > I vote for nasm as well. My vote doesn't count as much as yours does though.
In this case, mine counts less since I won't be doing hardly any work on this part of it. I've got my hands full with the hardware. Perhaps when additional people who have offered to help with the hardware come online, it'll free me up a bit, but probably not. > > The commercial entities that want to license our VGA core don't want > > to work with open code, so all the stuff you do needs to be original > > work so that we can relicense it. > They wouldn't even like lgpl2 or later? No, they would not. X11 is fine. Traversal dual-license is fine. (L)GPL alone is not. Traversal has to make money, or we can't afford to make hardware. > http://wiki.opengraphics.org./tiki-index.php?page=Subversion+Commit+Policy > [[Most software components are released under the X11 license.]] > I think lgpl2 by default and letting Traversal relicense as needed > would be best. If everyone who works on the BIOS wants to use (L)GPL and let Traversal dual-license it, that would be fine. The main reason to use a license like X11 is so that drivers can be written that have to include code that isn't GPL-compatible. For instance, a Windows driver. The BIOS _may_ be self-contained enough that (L)GPL will be okay. Most of them are proprietary anyhow, but what _I_ really want is for people to be able to rip code as they see fit, especially if they're doing it to support our hardware. I'm not sure how to license the microcontroller code. The code is necessary to make the device work, so we need the ability to, for instance, drop a binary blob into the Windows driver that it loads, regardless of the license for the Windows driver. It also has to allow the binary blob to be included in the BIOS without problems. This is one of those situations where I'd like the source code to be under GPL but our binary blobs are under X11, if that makes any sense. Maybe LGPL will do it. > > Since you guys are doing the BIOS, which I'm very happy about, it > > should probably also be you guys who do the code for HQ as well. > > Petter already developed an assembler for it, and it's in SVN. > > I'll look into it. > Thank you. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
