[linux-dvb] Re: Siemens documentation

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Ralph Metzler wrote:
....
>  > But where Siemens documentation is available ?
....
> It isn't.
> It is very common in Linux driver development that companies give
> developers the documentation under NDA but allow them to release the
> finished drivers under the GPL.

Does the NDA keep you from changing the source code, so
anyone reading it would no longer need the documentation
to understand and possibly enhance it?

What I mean is: would it be legal to use identifiers in
the source code that spell out the corresponding function
rather than abbreviating it? (as an example, I do not know
what a GPIO, a DEBI, a TTB or a fidbirq is).

Would it be legal to put comments into the driver that
explain every object (including hardware registers and other
bug objects) before it is first used?


Carsten.


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