On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:53:14AM -0500, Doug Hass wrote: > We are bound by third party agreements and are not allowed to release any > more free code (legally) than we already have. If we were not restricted > by SBS, Trillium, and Rockwell (among others), we would release all of the > code under GPL or lGPL. These agreements do NOT prevent us from working > with developers to support other platforms, though. It only prevents the > free release of portions of the code.
Would your agreements allow you to provide resources to a small number of developers (under NDA and all that of course) to produce drivers that you would then release in binary form (eg a kernel module) under a free license? If you cannot release the source code to your drivers, can you release hardware programming specifications (again, perhaps under NDA) that allowed someone to develop an independant free licensed driver? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
