Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Developing under NDA | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:55:23 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > > In article <199707300440.GAA25297@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> you write: > >> Just curious...I'd like to develop a driver for the Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW > >> drive, which does packet writing. The programming info requires an NDA, > >> so it cannot be distributed in source form. > >> > >> What do I have to worry about from the kernel and GNU camps? > > > >Remind me not to buy a Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW drive :-) > > Remind me not to by *any* Ricoh products at all, until the NDA is > removed. > > Of course, nobody wants to stop Andrew from writing this driver - > perhaps he wants to make a living from it - but I predict it won't > get many customers as long as the NDA persists.
Do you have problems with the Intel Etherexpress 16 driver? (Usually found in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/eexpress.c)
I was trying to get that thing to work reliably, so I signed an NDA with Intel. I won't publish the docs, but I was allowed to publish the source, but someone beat me to fixing it right.... Roger.
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