Re: [gNewSense-users] kernel - mach64 copyrigth

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:42 +0200, crap0101 wrote:
> maybe bad news :(
> 
> I've mailed ati from their dev-support page, now waiting for a
> reply,but...
> 
> found this on their site, probably that "sample code" came from here
> 
> http://developer.amd.com/samples/Pages/default.aspx
> 
> and reading Term&Condition from
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Copyright/0,,1435_1439,00.html
> seems impossible to use anything:
> (extract)
>         This Site is only for your personal use. You may not distribute,
>         exchange, modify, sell or transmit any materials you copy from
>         this Site, including but not limited to any software, text,
>         images, audio and video ("Materials"), for any business,
>         commercial or public purpose. All Materials on this Site are
>         copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and
>         treaty provisions. Any unauthorized use of the Materials may
>         violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and
>         publicity, and civil and criminal statutes. 

Unless it was differently licenced when ATI was still independant.
Not to say their site would have been, but the example code may have
been.
kk        

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Karl Goetz <address@hidden>

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