if you want it to be free, just copyright it and announce that anyone is
able to use it.
David Lang
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Terry L Ridder wrote:
> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 12:12:06 -0500
> From: Terry L Ridder <terrylr@tbcnet.com>
> To: Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org>
> Cc: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>,
Vladimir Dergachev <vladimid@blue.seas.upenn.edu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465
BogoMips??)
>
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > Even a more moderate idea (like designing an SMP mainboard for Power PC)
> > > > can be pretty complex. The thing is it will cost a lot to produce a 6-7
> > > > levels board. It's not ham radio unfortunately :(
> > >
> > > Yes, but once you've done the design work, it's quite cheap to manufacture
> > > them. It's the design & development that is the real killer here.
> > >
> >
> > Well the tooling costs alot, so you will have to commit to a certian
> > fairly large number of units. (i.e. 1000)..
> >
> > You could perhaps have an easier time adding features to make it a 'geek
> > board': Say two PPC chips (with cache please :) ), a TMS320C6701 DSP
> > (@167mhz doing single point it gets 1Gflop!), lotsa digital and analog IO
> > ports... cool stuff like that, I'd spend $700 on it (providing the PPCs
> > were reasonably fast)..
> >
>
> What you basically described is the original BeBox, which had a "geek
> port".
>
> On a semi-related issue, would anyone have an idea on how someone would
> GNU GPL hardware? To make it easier take the specific case of a
> motherboard
> design. How would someone GNU GPL the motherboard design?
>
> The BIOS for such a board is the easy part that is software and is
> already
> covered by the GNU GPL. The masks for a multi-layer PCB could also be
> GNU GPL-ed. (It is "artwork"). But is that enough to keep the design
> free?
>
> --
> Terry L. Ridder
> Blue Danube Software (Blaue Donau Software)
> "We do not write software, we compose it."
>
> When the toast is burnt
> and all the milk has turned
> and Captain Crunch is waving farewell
> when the Big One finds you
> may this song remind you that they
> don't serve breakfast in hell
> ==Breakfast==Newsboys
>
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