Hi ADI (Farinam & Tony), I Cc eagle-usb at eagle-usb dot org (our team common mail) and the ML, as we have not yet any answer to our distribution issue with USB firmware & DSPcode. Feel free to answer either publicly or privately (please answer ;-) ).
As stated before, https://mail.gna.org/public/eagleusb-dev/2005-04/msg00038.html and reminded in joined mail in May, we still need a __distribution license__ for DSPcode & USB firmware : - be it "just do what you want, nobody nor ADI will ever go after anyone for anyone distributing binary files of DSP code & USB firmware, in any way they want" - or be it with 2-clause BSD or public domain (our current request) - or be it with "just ask Aware or [any other firm] that owns the copyright, here's their email [to be completed] " without source code as we (eagle-usb team) agreed before, for the time being. We are optimistic and expecting an answer by next week (wednesday 22nd June 2005 would be fine) so that this issue can be closed (for us, and others that asked us). It will permit to have an enhancement of the driver, based on usbatm, with possible integration in the linux kernel and use by *BSD (at your option). Theo de Raadt is ready to move on, let's provide him positive answers before it becomes unstable. This ADI's & Sagem's move goes toward user-awareness and should be well welcomed by the libre-community. I CCc people at analog.com that were identified to me, and whose email I won't put on a forum without their approval. I hope that ADI is willing to confirm its choice of an open source & libre-way of providing drivers for their hardware productions, eagle-usb being working but not so successful a completed-test with GPL (due to unexpected-by-us "third party licensing issues", is it Aware partly-responsible for this ?! may we just ask them ?). Looking forward to hearing from you (don't spend the week-end on it, by mondy will be suficient : just tell us what you currently can & what you can obtain with a deadline, so that we know when we can expect more). Best regards. @++ Ben'. aka baud123 Objet: eagle-usb distribution De: "Benoit Audouard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jeu 26 mai 2005 2:07 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (plus) Hi, I Cc my colleagues & our common mailbox. I hope that your conference for ADI at http://pulver.com/europe2005/agenda.html went well. We are sad that current versions cannot be released as GPL for firmware USB / DSPcode, but your current explanation is *valid and now accepted*. Though, I remind you that we still need a distribution license : either 2-clause BSD or public domain (*without source code*) as I told you in April https://mail.gna.org/public/eagleusb-dev/2005-04/msg00038.html This is needed to permit distribution on mirrors (either for GNU/Linux or *BSD), otherwise those files will be missing, which is a plague for end-users (well, they bought the modem, they just do not understand the reason why it does not work out of the box for a "simple" license problem, that sounds understandable). Mandriva distributes those files thanks to our relations with them and confidence in you, but that's impossible for Red-Hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu and other distributions that just consider the driver as "cannot-be-distributed-as-a-whole as no license permit it", "bad-luck-for-the-end-user-that-should-have-just-bought-other-hardware" (I think we agree that's a limited - though just - view) If you want to make an announcement for future product releases as free software, we are ready to give you feedback & means to announce it. Maybe you have an official position by ADI to announce ? What about Eagle-Plus ? We can work with you and aware to improve your communication with Free Software (free as in freedom) community ? Nokia has just done it : http://press.nokia.com/PR/200505/995845_5.html though it does not seem clear to the community, perhaps we can help you provide a better press-release ? Please, do not hesitate to ask questions about Free Software as we known it is not that easy to grasp the motives *and* make business with it. We have resources available for you, free of use, just ask what you need, we'll see what we can provide. We are not (yet) involved in DSLforum, but we can spend some time to give feedback if you have matter-of-facts subjects to address (related to "libre"-software initiatives). Just tell us. We remain convinced that ADI's business-oriented objectives are compatible with our own objectives in libre-software. Let's discuss. @++ Ben'. aka baud123
