From: "Ara Avanesyan" <araav@hylink.am>
To: "Josh Boyer" <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Software Requirement && DiskOnChip
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:09:29 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007601c515cb$d8dc2e60$1000000a@araavanesyan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1108738499.7821.11.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:41 +0400, Ara Avanesyan wrote:
> > ok,
> >
> > My question is from theory only:)
> > Can't then the driver writer copy-paste the documentation to source
files as
> > comment? really...
>
> Not if there is an agreement with the documentation owners to not
> release the documentation. That would be similar to taking a
> programming book and pasting the contents into a program you wrote using
> information in the book. It's known as plagiarism.
>
> > And what could be the reason to not sharing the hardware documentation
to
> > the community???
>
> I have no idea. You'd have to ask M-Systems I guess.
>
Josh,
Thanks for clarifications.
> (btw, top-posting is frowned upon on this list.)
Sorry about that. I'll keep this in mind for the future.
__
Thanks,
Ara
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-18 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-17 15:02 Software Requirement && DiskOnChip Ara Avanesyan
2005-02-17 16:24 ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-18 10:17 ` Ara Avanesyan
2005-02-18 14:07 ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-18 14:41 ` Ara Avanesyan
2005-02-18 14:45 ` Jörn Engel
2005-02-18 14:54 ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-18 15:09 ` Ara Avanesyan [this message]
2005-02-18 6:54 ` Raphael Zimmerer
2005-02-18 10:22 ` Ara Avanesyan
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