From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 21 12: 7:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7377F14E7B for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA24155; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:07:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) id OAA14532; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:07:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19991221140733.10659@right.PCS> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:07:33 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current References: <199912211939.NAA04949@free.pcs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Dec 12, 1999 at 11:50:20AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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