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From: Ian Molton <ian@mnementh.co.uk>
To: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: legal status of code derived from sdcard.org specs?
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:23:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8840AC.5050204@mnementh.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A860486.1030001@gmail.com>

Don Mullis wrote:
> sdcard.org specs appear to not be (any longer) public.  When downloading 
> some today I had to give an employer's name, and received in return PDFs 
> watermarked with that name.

If you can put in any name, and they dont verify it, I cant imagine they 
can claim the specs are private.

> This is a practical issue for a couple of patches that I'd like to post 
> for review.  They extend the existing code that extracts the CSD and SCR 
> registers to extract as well an SD-specific register containing some 
> performance-related parameters.

Are the details unavailable in earlier 'open' versions of the docs ?

> Any ideas on how we might seek clarification?

email sdcard.org ?

-Ian

       reply	other threads:[~2009-08-16 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4A860486.1030001@gmail.com>
2009-08-16 17:23 ` Ian Molton [this message]
2009-08-17 21:49   ` legal status of code derived from sdcard.org specs? Don Mullis
2009-08-17 16:12 ` H Hartley Sweeten

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