On 13/02/07, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I happened to see this on the slashdot rss feed, and out of > curiosity took a look. > > Free Linux Driver Development FAQ > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/0220233&from=rss > > Is this bad news for the OpenBSD developers efforts to free hardware > documentation? If it is, how can OpenBSD users, and users of other > FOSS, help? > > -- > W. Steven Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well as I understand it one of the things they are looking for are specs on which to base their own drivers. Also as I understand it, they cannot work under NDA's, so any specs released to them would be released to the public.
This is only bad if the specs are released under a licence that would prohibit OBSD people from looking at them. If companies go so far as releasing the specs to Linux people, I can't see that happening, although of course using the GPL'ed Linux drivers released under such conditions would/might be problematic. Maybe it's time for the OBSD dev community to make similar overtures, though, just in case Jeff R
