Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30 Jan 2002, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> 
> > I've decided to add some pertinent comments from Mike Harris regarding
> > the availability of documentation under NDA to the DRI Devel FAQ (
> > http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/dri/faq/html/hardware.html#ATI-SPECS )
> >
> > In the comments Mike makes strong reference to join as XFree86 developer
> > as a mean to obtain NDA documentation that is shared to all XFree86
> > developers, but it was mentioned in the last IRC meeting that this is no
> > longer true.
> >
> > The fact is that the XFree86 developer page
> > (http://www.xfree.org/developer.html) makes no mention to this and I
> > would like to know if this still holds true or not.
> >
> 
>     At one time, the XFree86 project had some chip docs under
> NDA and you had to officially become an XFree86 member (join our
> corporation) to have access to it.  Times have changed.  I don't
> know of any documentation that the XFree86 project keeps that
> isn't available elsewhere.  There are still alot of individuals
> and projects that have NDA'd documentation, but these are not
> NDAs with the XFree86 Project Inc.  XFree86 doesn't really
> sign NDAs anymore because it hasn't been necessary.
> 
>                                 Mark.


Do you know of a place for S3 ViRGE documentation?  s3graphics/Via is
still requiring an NDA for this information, some of which XFree86 has,
but which I assume is still covered by S3's original NDA with XFree86. 
Is that not the case?

-- 
Kevin
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