[gNewSense-users] kernel: dubt about a possible bug

[crap0101]

Hi!

checking kernel in section `/include/linux/mtd/' i've found the file
`cfi.h' that look like the mach64.h bug:

0) it has not licence, only the following lines:

/* Common Flash Interface structures
 * See http://support.intel.com/design/flash/technote/index.htm
 * $Id: cfi.h,v 1.57 2005/11/15 23:28:17 tpoynor Exp $
 */ 

that link is broken, howewer is still in archive.org at
http://web.archive.org/web/20010523021809/http://support.intel.com/design/flash/technote/index.htm

1) the specification can found at (original links are broken):
 http://netwinder.osuosl.org/pub/netwinder/docs/nw/flash/cfi_1_1.pdf

but the licence sayd:
        
        License: CFI Promoters and User each grant to the other and its
        subsidiaries, under any claim of a patent or patent
        application otherwise infringed, a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
        non-transferable, world-wide license, without rights to
        sublicense, to make or have made such party’s products which
        comply with the CFI Specification solely in connection with
        meeting the CFI Specification, and to use, sell, offer to sell,
        and import such products, where infringement of such claims
        would not have occurred but for the incorporation of the CFI
        Specification in such products, and there is no feasible
        alternative to such infringement.
        
2) besides (like AMD website, releated to the mach64.h bug), the
site-licence don't permit...anything:
(update) 
http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm?iid=ftr+terms
(original form archive.org (is the same))
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205181100/developer.intel.com/sites/developer/tradmarx.htm


in the meantime i've rased a bug: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00243



what do ypu think?



thanks,
marco