From: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
To: Ara Avanesyan <araav@hylink.am>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Software Requirement && DiskOnChip
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:54:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108738499.7821.11.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006c01c515c7$ef8c6d40$1000000a@araavanesyan>
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.
(btw, top-posting is frowned upon on this list.)
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-18 14:55 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 [this message]
2005-02-18 15:09 ` Ara Avanesyan
2005-02-18 6:54 ` Raphael Zimmerer
2005-02-18 10:22 ` Ara Avanesyan
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