Re: Software Requirement && DiskOnChip

["Ara Avanesyan" <araav@hylink.am>]

ok,

My question is from theory only:)
Can't then the driver writer copy-paste the documentation to source files as
comment? really...
And what could be the reason to not sharing the hardware documentation to
the community???

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Thanks,
Ara


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Boyer" <jdub@us.ibm.com>
To: "Ara Avanesyan" <araav@hylink.am>
Cc: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>; <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Software Requirement && DiskOnChip


> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:17 +0400, Ara Avanesyan wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Thanks. I'll contact M-System for the document.
> > Bah! This somewhat violates my [very basic]
> > understanding of open source community. It's
> > something like "open source and close source of
> > source". Couldn't the driver writer (you:)) put the
> > document to the source tree documentation part?
>
> I don't think so.  The source code is definitely open source.  The
> hardware documentation is whatever the vendor decides it should be.  In
> this case, M-Systems decided that it should not be public, IIRC.
>
> josh
>
>