With the Open Graphics Project advancing slowly a few students picked up the idea to do it all smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper. From the site: "We'd love to have an OGD1 card and are amazed by it's specifications, but for us and a lot of people, this card is simply too much. So that's where this card comes in, to give you all the fun of developing on programmable hardware, designing video cards and architectures, for a price that won't hurt your wallet."
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Member since:2005-07-06
What has copyright got to do with it? Even BSD code is copyrighted. The important bit is the license the copyright holder releases the work under, and right from the first paragraph of the front page of the project website:
Member since:2006-06-27
I wrote it, so I have the copyrights on it. If I understand copyright law (IANAL). I also stated that I'm releasing it under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License" on the main page, but for clarity, I'll add it to the schematic soon (don't have Eagle here right now).
Member since:2007-04-21
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I do not understand hardware & Most of you blog was barely comprehensible to me....
Despite that, I can recognize initiative and development when I see it.
I don't know and don't really care if this will succeed or not, I just know that your making this attempt is improving the industry and producing better tools/products for the rest of us.
Congratulation on you initiative, let me know if there is anything us (less experienced) types can do that will help.
Ideas:
1. Donations to help with costs.
2. Translations into other languages of documentation (Sorry I only speak English).
3. Purchase of available prototypes.
4. Telling anyone else who will listen how cool this project is.
Regards
Darren
Member since:
2006-02-19
Sticking "Copyright" on the schematics is interesting. Yes, they are publicly available, but no, you can't redistribute them with any of your own improvements. Unless I'm missing something else on this page, the copyright would seem to stifle innovation that other people could add and distribute.