Subject: Re: What happened to autobuild?
To: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/03/1997 11:56:11
> No this will not lift us from the NDA unless Cumana agree that with the
> information public we can use the public info rather that the NDA info.
> However since Cumana consider that the information for their card is
> private they may not be happy with the information on the card being
> public from anywhere and just because ArmLinux have obtained the
> information from a source other than Cumana that will not release us even
> if we use the alternative source unless Cumana clear that source first.

You, Causality, may not be able to write a driver and give it away in
source form, since you agreed to an NDA.

However, is there any reason that The NetBSD Project couldn't _accept_
a driver written by a third party, assuming it had a not-unreasonable
pedigree?



chris