From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 23 19:40:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F4437B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA12550 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:40:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020123200512.01d74bb0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:08:42 -0700 To: hardware@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: FTDI USB<->serial driver; can't do! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just contacted FTDI for information on their USB<->serial chip, and -- unbelievably -- they wanted me to sign an NDA before I could receive documentation on the part. The NDA would prohibit me from writing a driver to be published as open source, and so I can't sign it. Interestingly, there seems to be a Linux driver for their chip (which I'd love to look at, but can't due to the potential for GPL contamination). Why do you think they're being so difficult, especially when the cat is already out of the bag? --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message