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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