From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Please reconsider SCH5514 Message-Id: <502A0A89.3040407@redhat.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 08/13/2012 10:02 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:17:55AM -0700, Norbert Schlenker wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Have you seen this: http://www.spinics.net/lists/lm-sensors/msg24621.html ? >>> >>> Without having full specifications it's hard to write a driver, and signing >>> a NDA goes against open source (Non Disclosure Agrement <> Open Source). >>> >>> Regards >>> Ian Dobson >> >> Thanks for the pointer. >> >> Email sent to Mark Hoffman asking if the driver was ever released. >> > I don't think so - I don't find one anywhere in the archives. > > Key problem, though, is really the lack of a data sheet. Even if someone would > be able to get a data sheet under NDA, it might be impossible for that person > to publish a driver, since publishing register details (as one has to when > publishing a driver) would very likely violate the NDA. That very much depends on the NDA, Linux driver are written based on datasheets under NDA all of the time, it is just a matter of having both parties understand that although the datasheet will fall under the NDA, the source of the driver written with the help of the datasheet will not, and putting something like that explicitly in the NDA. Note IANAL, and this is not legal advice :) Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors