Luc Verhaegen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:58:42AM -0700, Magnus Feuer wrote:
There have been a few takers. I will follow up on them today.
One question about a VIA NDA: If we sign an NDA with VIA in order to obtain specs and developer docs, will we not be prohibited from releasing the finished LinuxBIOS port under GPL since the source would show the secrets covered by the NDA?
/Magnus F.
If it's from the datasheet only, then there is no problem with the NDA documents i've seen (but never signed). VIAs Linux NDA addendum only prohibits redistribution of (only) GPLed code VIA handed to you directly but hasn't made generally public (yet). It therefor directly forces you to breach the GPL.
Daft, clueless, useless and will probably not stand in court.
A typical example of VIA stupidity.
Luc Verhaegen. http://unichrome.Sf.net/
I have, erm, acquired the vt8237r datasheets (not through via, either). Email me privately for anyone who wishes to work on this. If you aren't a usual poster on the mailing list, or someone I know, don't expect a reply.
-Corey