[openbeos] Re: position on NDAs.....

Hi Ithamar,

"Ithamar R. Adema" <iradema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there an official Haiku position on signing NDAs for driver
> implementations? I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but say 
> that
> it would be possible to get hardware specifications for a device 
> under
> NDA, and we would be allowed to open source the actual driver
> implementation....
> 
> Would this be acceptable? I know it would be much better if the specs
> were public, but this is not always possible.

We already have such a driver in the repository (ATI), but I can't 
imagine what would be wrong with signing an NDA if we have the 
possibility to open source the driver without too much effort.

Bye,
   Axel.

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