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Re: [gNewSense-users] kernel: dubt about a possible bug
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crap0101 |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] kernel: dubt about a possible bug |
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:30:49 +0100 |
hi, forgotten the link:
http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00243
Il giorno mer, 28/01/2009 alle 17.18 +0100, crap0101 ha scritto:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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