From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Molton Subject: Re: legal status of code derived from sdcard.org specs? Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:23:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4A8840AC.5050204@mnementh.co.uk> References: <4A860486.1030001@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.mnementh.co.uk ([173.45.232.4]:47964 "EHLO mnementh.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbZHPRYF (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:24:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A860486.1030001@gmail.com> Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Don Mullis Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org 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