Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Andres Salomon
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

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
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 >

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread Andres Salomon
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 >

acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
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)