John Griessen wrote:
Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
On 2/25/08, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For Traversal to earn revenue, we need "unlimited rights" to the
schematics and other copyrightable materials. But at the same time,
we also release our stuff under GPL. Look up how TrollTech and MySQL
do their dual-licensing scheme. Ours is similar.
Will we be able to reuse verilog built into it?
Under GPL. Or alternatively, if you want to make a proprietary
product, you can pay us a commercial licensing fee.
[jg]sounds compatible with my plan to make mechanically simple,
shoe-box scale
seeing-eye-bots that cost $75 each and are open hardware with TAPR
license.
If they became a hit, they could be packaged proprietary and pay you
royalties
for a test spin with FPGAs, then hire you to make a custom chip.
Sounds like you plan on being
an open code friendly fabless chip company.
Adding OGP functions in FPGA or TT's planned ASIC chip
would be a boon to embedded linux boards, or possibly even cheaper
lower power processors -- for machine vision
for little robots, (no PC motherboards, just 3 or 4 chips).
That would be very cool.
[jg]Does a 32 bit kind of linux-2.6-running chip sound like a good
match for OGA1, or is
an interface to a 16 bit low power MSP430 microcontroller reasonable too?
The 32 bits chips being able to run linux would be more of a good match
for OGA1. You would need a chip with some kind of bus like pci to
connect peripheral. The MSP430 would be more useful probably for power
management or other simple task.
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