Worth mentioning when it comes to who owns what part of the PowerPC
arch, and what can be done with it -- Straight from IBM's page:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/newto/#3
"the architecture specifies an instruction set architecture (ISA)
that allows anyone to design and fabricate PowerPC-compatible
processors, and source code for software modules developed in support
of PowerPC is freely available. PowerPC is an open standard, and
anyone can start making PowerPC chips"
They then link to a licensing page that mentions licensing for the
PPC 4xx cores - which may be the only models that IBM both own
copyright to AND also license out for others to use - but doesn't
necessarily mean they are the ONLY powerpc chips that can be made by
anybody else.
dana
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