[openbeos] Re: position on NDAs.....
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:35:30 +0200 CEST
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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