Hi,
Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I
wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for
the Tigon II chip. I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking
at the datasheet
(http://alteon.shareable.org/firmware-source/12.4.13/tigonbk.pdf.bz2)
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:11:38 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I
> wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for the
> Tigon II chip. I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking at the
>
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:13:57PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:11:38 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00078.html I
> > wondered if people would be willing to work on a free firmware for the
>
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:26:09 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
[...]
> Sure. That's ok. I was more thinking of someone reading the existing
> firmware sources, writing a spec and a second person/group implementing
> the new free firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the
> spe
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> I didn't look at the existing code yet, but looking at the datasheet
> (http://alteon.shareable.org/firmware-source/12.4.13/tigonbk.pdf.bz2) it
> doesn't seem to be a very complicated chip to code for. I'm not sure
> however, how to handle the development in such a
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver writes:
> I was more thinking of someone reading the existing firmware sources,
> writing a spec and a second person/group implementing the new free
> firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the spec writers
> should be different people/groups.
You can do th
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 07:26:09PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> Sure. That's ok. I was more thinking of someone reading the existing
> firmware sources, writing a spec and a second person/group implementing
> the new free firmware based on the spec. AFAICS the implementors and the
> spec
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:44:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Peter 'p2' De Schrijver writes:
> > Or do you think it would be ok if the same people read the existing
> > non-free sources and reimplement its functionality in a new free
> > firmware?
>
> As long as they don't copy any protected cod
I wrote:
> As long as they don't copy any protected code you'll be fine.
Wouter Verhelst writes:
> That's the problem, I'm afraid. It's not unlikely that you'll have this
> 'great idea' which in reality is something you remember from reading the
> original source, but not remembering that this is
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