Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:07:33 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <19991221140733.10659@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912211144220.57114-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from Matthew Jacob on Dec 12, 1999 at 11:50:20AM -0800 References: <199912211939.NAA04949@free.pcs> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912211144220.57114-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:50:20AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > I did coordinate with you- you didn't offer to share any technical > information with me and seemed to indicate that the driver would have > trouble being released with source. You also said "I haven't written a > NetWork driver either". See correspondence below. Well, I congratulate you for posting private mail to a public list. Now, if you go back and look at it, I quite clearly said that the docs are covered under NDA, so of course I can't share any details with you, unless you're willing to sign an NDA as well. That's the way they work, after all. I also said that I did not anticipate any problems releasing the driver source, _BUT_ that I did have to get permission first. I'm currently waiting on that from Intel. Given that their own driver is under a BSD license, I don't think that they will have any objections. And no, I haven't written a network driver before, but what's your point? All I meant was that I can't produce results inside of one week, like Bill "maniac network driver writer" Paul; not that my code would be horrible. Not that I'm implying yours is, either! > It is in fact *because* I remember you mentioning that you were doing a > driver that I didn't just check this into CVS (about 50%- the other 50% > would be to get some review). So, how do you want to proceed? At this point, you have a driver that you can release, and I don't. We can either just check yours into CVS, and then replace it with mine later, or just completely forget about the one that I have. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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