Steve, Thanks for remembering! :-)
Let me clarify a couple of aspects to this, lest there be some confusion. For the record, and speaking only for myself, I am a complete, 100% open source Fanatic(TM) who supports the GPL. Period. However, the division of Intel in charge of this initiative is not quite as understanding, despite my best efforts at education over many long years. That said: 1) This is not a joke (though some may differ after reading the whole post...:-) 2) There are several pieces to the "Dialogic System Release" (SR). Essentially, they are: the firmware pieces which run the DSPs on the board and it's associated control logic; the device drivers which communicate over the PCI bus; the software libraries which map the Dialogic R4 API to the actual driver messages sent to the boards; and admin type software. The firmware piece wil never be open sourced in any way, shape or form; the device drivers and demo stuff are available under GPL; and the libraries and OA&M pieces are under a new "Intel Public License" which has terms and conditions which are not GPL-compatible at all. This is one of the main reasons that the project is not hosted at, say, SourceForge vs Kavi, an ISP. 3) Relative to the above, since the firmware and other pieces are not available except through having a "real" SR already in hand, having source to the pieces that are available for download won't really gain anything, hence the requirement for an existing SR. 4) Again relative to the licensing issue and the "chan-dialogic" channel driver for Asterisk. Since the entire SR is not GPL-compatible, the version of chan-dialogic soon to be released - being copyrighted to Mark, since he wrote it - is not likely to be GPL'ed, though that is Mark's call and it opens up an ugly can of license compatibility worms. So, there you have it. I'd be very interested in any feedback from the community, and I promise to forward it to my management for them to read. Thanks, Gerry There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't. Gerry Gilmore Field Applications Engineer Intel Corporation (http://www.intel.com) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:03 PM To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Intel to open Dialogic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Will Intel really give us the Dialogic drivers & related software(s)? > >www.opensystemrelease.com > >FYI > >Cheers. > > This is not news. Gerry Gilmore, who is with Intel, posted about this on 29th March on this mailing list. As far as I can tell they are only open sourcing the Linux drivers. Since much of the interesting work (and annoying restrictions) happens in the processors on the cards themselves, it seems like this open sourcing effort will be of little practical value. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
