----- Original Message ----- From: "EagleUsb Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Farahmand, Farinam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nicolas RIOU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ludovic AUROUX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:05 PM Subject: RE: Re: [Eagleusb-dev] The omega & the alpha
[big snip] Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 11:00 -0400, Farahmand, Farinam a écrit : > Hi Ben, > > My apologies for the delay in responding; engineering group had to wait for the legal department's final decision. > Unfortunately, the source code for USB firmware and DSL code cannot be disclosed due to third party licensing > issues. We all regret the delay caused by this process and are willing to resume our collaboration with EAGLE USB > team on any other engineering issues related to ADSL technology. > > Please forward me any, non-licensing, non-proprietary, DSL related issues and I will be more than happy to get the > answer from the engineers in our department. > > Best Regards, > Farinam > I understand ADI may not license under GPL the firmware. I had unfortunately envisaged that logically the license owner of the embedded OS could not agree. But this is not the only solution. eagle-usb linux driver need to have right to distribute the firmware under a license agreement. Even if GPL is the prefered solution, it is not the unique one. As the firmware don't run under the CPU powered by the linux OS, other licenses agreement can be accepted. Having a valid license to distribute the firmware is the primary concern. ADI should have the possibility to concede this right or even the windows driver can't be distributed. So it should be easy for the legal department to clarify this problem by providing a acceptable license for the firmware distribution. The second concern is firmware interface documentation. To my understandig, ADI is there the rights owner. So it is _only_ a question of will to share the knowledge to ease product use and solve technical issues. Gilles Espinasse owner of Sagem800, Sagem800 E3, Sagem 908
