Re: current status of Addi-Data drivers?

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:25:50PM -0800, David Schleef wrote:

> It appears ADDI-Data suffers from a common problem companies have
> with open source -- once they have a product that works, they assume
> they are "done", when in reality, they need to do the extra step
> of getting their drivers included upstream.

Doing this should be in there very own interest, because otherwise they
would have to care for updates themselfes. Anyway, especially marketin g
people tend to think, that they loose ther "intellectual property" when
providing proper Open Source drivers.

> The drivers are not included in the release, because their license
> status is unclear.  Presumably, the code is released under a license
> that is compatible with the GPL, since anything else would imply
> that they are violating the GPL in their Comedi fork.

exactly!

> I've tried to contact ADDI-Data about this, but to no effect.

Hm, I will try to contact them again in their native language ;)

Sven

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Received on 2005-02-10Z09:19:28