Re: [avrdude-dev] Atmel's XML part description files

[E. Weddington]

Galen Seitz wrote:

> E. Weddington <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Russell Shaw wrote:
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> > > E. Weddington wrote:
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> > > > E. Weddington wrote:
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> > > > > The other issue has to do with licensing. We need to check with
> > > > > Atmel if it's ok to redistribute their XML files. I can check on
> > > > > that.
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> > > > Bad news on this. I just got word from Atmel, and we do NOT have
> > > > permission to redistribute Atmel's XML part description files.
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> > > > But, I suppose, we're always free to make our own.
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> > > > It's a shame that they're unwilling to do this.
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> Do you think it is worth pushing back on this?  I could ask my Atmel FAE
> to do some arm twisting, but I'd rather not do that unless we think we
> can change their position.  Do you have a sense of how strongly they feel
> about this?
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I asked the Atmel engineer in Norway who wrote the ELF/DWARF2 parser for 
AVR Studio. He asked his department manager and the answer "is so far 
no". Perhaps it will change in the future.
I doubt it's worth fighting about; though I wish they could change their 
mind and/or provide better reasoning why not. I doubt a FAE could 
persuade them differently, but there's no harm in trying either.

In the end, this is data that is public. IANAL, but I think we could 
just strip out the data we need and repackage it.

Eric