Re, On Fri, June 17, 2005 23:30, Benoit Audouard said: > Hi ADI (Farinam & Tony),
Please, when can you answer (see below) ? This wednesday would be fine (or tomorrow) for the planning of the answer (or the final answer). We can wait another week for a clear distribution license, no problem. "Public domain" for USB firmware and DSPcode would do. That's what we may infer from your not-answering us : I think we'll be adding headers to USB firmare & DSPcode with "Analog Devices, Inc. did not identify a distribution licence, consider this file as public domain". Ben'. aka baud123 > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Eagleusb-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/eagleusb-dev >
