Samsung documentation

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Joerg,
I don't get your point. If we have the Samsung docs in a public git,  
wouldn't that mean we redistribute them to the whole world?
Wolfgang

On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:05 PM, joerg wrote:

> 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