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Yes, the BFB team was more then forth coming in every aspect. Including the whole firmware source story. The "missing files" are under some undefined microchip licence (note that most microchip stuff is under GPL but these libraries are not !!) so it is not simple to release the files ... as for the support - open source does not mean you support source, just that it is available, but again Tony spent few hours with me getting it to compile.
I am very happy with the BFB team and I don't often find companies that easy to work with and cooperative as they are .. I just think they have business growing faster then they anticipated so they are not as fast in doing stuff as we would like (and probably not near as fast as they would like), but anyhow, you know, you took the kit from them and you communicated with them, you know how crazy nice Ian and Iain are
btw. iirc the main reason for the delay on the 1.0.8 was refactoring .. as they wanted the source to look "nice" and to be sure no commercial licences are broken by publishing it (hence - few microchip files with "funny licence" are missing).. I think the same will be with 2.0 .. they probably want to have "Final" version that is "nice" and then they will shoot the source on dl page
just mine 0.02$
On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Forrest Higgs wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying that Bogdan. I think we'd do well not to presume a malicious attempt to evade open source release of firmware by BfB any time something isn't instantly available. Even if they were, reverse engineering that kind of firmware isn't exactly rocket science. :-/
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All Software, Data, and Documentation are licensed for use and copying under GPL version __ or later. All Hardware, and Hardware parts printed from any GPL covered design or documentation are licensed for use under TAPR OHL version __ or later."I do not believe any 'conflict between licenses' would exist with this language because they cover distinct components; a component covered by one license will not be covered by the other.
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