Samsung documentation

joerg joerg.twinklephone at gmx.de
Thu Mar 20 12:05:09 CET 2008


Hi Wolfgang,

Am Do  20. März 2008 schrieb Wolfgang Spraul:
> Hi everybody,
> we are playing with some new hardware, among others using the Samsung  
> 2443 and 6400 CPUs.
> One of the things that is really important for Openmoko is open  
> documentation.
> That's the reason we chose 2442 in the past, the documents could be  
> freely downloaded from Samsung's web site.
> We are generally suspicious about that, because companies may choose  
> to withdraw this at any time.
> So what we really prefer is documentation that we can REDISTRIBUTE  
> from our own servers.
> Similar to how Intel is now releasing documentation under a Creative  
> Commons license. That's the ideal.
> 
> Back to Samsung, we were promised several times that they would give  
> us this redistribution rights permission eventually. It wasn't that  
> important at the time, because we could point to a URL at samsung.com
> Well, like in (almost) every good marriage, things turned out  
> differently than promised :-)
> Samsung recently decided to put the documents on their site behind a  
> 'registration' form that needs a manual 'review' before you can  
> download their documents.
> They are only 1 step away from an NDA.

I wonder what will be Samsung's answer, when OM tells them that the product 
GTAxx is specified to come with full documentation incl. user-manual for the 
CPU.
That's not *full* disclosure as in creative commons (so Samsung might feel a 
little more easy about that), but may allow OM to redistribute Samsung's docs 
very freely (e.g. included in git /usr/share/doc), that is if they are 
interested to sell their chips.

cheers
jOERG




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