-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello,

On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:04, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Michael Lorenz wrote:
>> There's a valkyrie driver in the current linux kernel, no need to go  
>> digging:
>> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/drivers/video/valkyriefb.c?v=linux 
>> -2.6
>
> What about licensing?  Won't that be an issue?  I thought it would  
> preclude us from borrowing much of anything from Linux.

The license prevents us from copying code which nobody proposed doing.  
It wouldn't be practical anyway since linux console drivers are  
fundamentally different from NetBSD ones.
And if we really wanted to copy code we could always ask the original  
authors for permission - when writing the dbri audio driver I used  
someone else's work as base which later turned out to be based on a  
linux driver so instead of rewriting the thing I tracked down the  
people who wrote it, got their permission to use the code in a BSD  
licensed driver, mentioned them in the credits and that's it.
But what we're talking about here are register offsets to talk to the  
DAC, if anyone owns the specs it's the hardware vendor. So, as long as  
we don't actually copy anything from GPLed source code we should be  
safe.

have fun
Michael
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin)

iQEVAwUBRtXGLspnzkX8Yg2nAQLc5wf/ft+UgOnfc8kcNNDFO4DZNsgSpoKt3owF
GnPNYb5B4eal/ItUF0ER5AbX+J8VenIzLYRd1fagJgtIkFOF52lV84Oj1/sd7yT9
n6I67xkpli9kgWwX3jN90AvAH1vcruzsPqtU3ycDPVfiU6kgdzuVXJukmwyZ/I87
lXcyJIvsH3nwJ5oFDN1VPslTiYOEB+98PLpMe35QEgIj5AUjgLn7lE9nzXg8wh71
govFIaoVwKg9hMFjuYZgvWjFkhJgPVfVUQXkizI9TccJO621fpsdADzVt/qBXUvF
uSExOcJ84KeUidLg7LUrztuFMSEaK6OBTIGHrw2Xl//A5HTJ4mqaJQ==
=aY3i
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----