Re: A proposal - binary

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 18:44:55 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:
...it should be very easy to opensource simple 'something' layer. If
it is so complex it is 'hard' to opensource, it is missdesigned,
anyway... so fix the design.

It's not a design issue - it's a legal issue at this point, and one that I'm not qualified to come up with a good answer for. The biggest technical issue I think for open sourcing the VMI, is that it is not part of the kernel, but stand alone firmware with a rather bizarre build environment, so the code alone is not sufficient to allow it to be open sourced, but this is not a hard problem to solve.

Zach
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