Subject: Re: looking for a contact at ATI...
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/2006 19:00:54
Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:11:57AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> I've got a radeonfb driver for NetBSD that we'd *like* to give away. 
>> Unfortunately, while I didn't use them much, I have had access to NDA
>> documentation from ATI, which prevents me from being able to release
>> this driver back to NetBSD without specific approval from ATI.
>>     
>
> I'd say just commit it but then i dont care about IP since it doesn't 
> exist.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinoud
>
>   

Heh.  Yeah, I'm sure that explanation will fly real well when I get
fired by my employer, and when I get sued by ATI....

Are you *sure* you a member of the right crowd?  This argument might
find more favor within the GNU project...

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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