From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 15:10:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA11952 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:10:38 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA11932 ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:09:50 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id SAA12905; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:07:50 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504202207.SAA12905@hda.com> Subject: Re: DIGIBOARD driver in ~julian To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: julian@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504201749.AA25642@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 20, 95 11:49:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1122 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > The Linux driver is copyleft and (allegedly) doesn't exploit all > > of the features. I'm real hesitant about looking at the Linux > > driver until we're sure that no one is going to sign an NDA with > > Digi and write a complete object-only driver. > > > > In spite of the availability of a Linux driver Digi requires signing an > > NDA to get access to the documentation for the intelligent boards. > > > > Is anyone interested in a shareware object only driver? > > This would only work if the driver was a loadable module AND the > driver was undel LGPL instead of GPL so that loading as a kernel > module satisfies the relinking requirements of LGPL. No, I meant an organization would sign the NDA, pay Digiboard the $200.00 for the documentation, and produce a shareware object only driver. The Linux driver ALLEGEDLY is incomplete in its support. Note that Digi felt enough pressure to permit a Linux driver. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267