> > I'm looking into open source hardware and open source tools to reverse
engineer hardware in an attempt to open up the hardware space a > little. As part of that, I'd like to start posting commercial chip > die photos and reconstructed standard cell libraries that have passed > the 10 year mask rights expiration point. Is this something that can > be considered an open source project to post on Google Code or can you > recommend somewhere where it could be hosted? I looked through your > FAQ and such, but I think this goes a bit beyond the normal cases. > So I looked into the mask thing, which was crazy interesting, and I came away with two thoughts. 1) If you can put your data/imagry under the licenses supported on code.google.com, that seems fine by me. 2) I'd imagine if you rev-eng some of the mroe, ahem, prominant chips, we'll likely get served wit ha dmca from the companies that made them. This is fine, but you'll want to eitehr preparefor a backup host, or know how to do a dmca counterclaim. I think that this is one of those areas of law that will, through its obscurity, work weirdly for us all. But , yeah, go for it. The worst that'll happen is you might be dmca'd off the site. > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code-hosting%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source and Developer programs can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Site and Weblog: http://dibona.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
