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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:23:07 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
Cc:        scanner@jurai.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.
Message-ID:  <3ABAA57B.1E3BAF05@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <200103221807.f2MI7K421522@prism.flugsvamp.com>

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Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
> In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/Pine.BSF.4.21.0103221218480.62375-100000@sasami.jurai.net> you write:
> >       She need's specific information that we need that we cant get
> >unless we sign NDA's for the doc's so she can try and get them merged into
> >a reference product somewhere between the datasheet (worthless) and the
> >programming manual (NDA).
> 
> Well, I applaud your effort, but I can't really think of how this
> would work.  The information in the programming manual is required
> to program the chip.  It is already a fairly concise manual, and if
> you axe anything out of it, it would mean that feature wouldn't be
> supported.

How about meeting half-way in a different way ? Suppose they provide
the manual with NDA but in the NDA agreement they state that
the source code of the driver developed using this manual may
be published. To reiterate, the manual itself would still be their
trade secret but the results of development done based on this
manual would be free. 

-SB

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