[Dev] Misleading information in EOMA68 news

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Resending with the right address, please don't CC my Replicant address since
this is not directly related to Replicant.

Hi,

Le lundi 15 août 2016 à 20:15 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit :
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic <tct at ceata.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On 15.08.2016 20:09, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > * "New Libre Hardware Crowdfunding Project"
> > > 
> > > Saying that the hardware is libre or free is an overstatement.
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think the title should be reworked, depending on whether the circuit
> > > board design is libre or not.
> > 
> > I agree. AFAIR the circuit board design is being withheld for now,
> 
> that's incorrect.. or misleading.  the PCB SCHematic file is available
> as a PDF and i have only just, a few hours ago, asked people to aid
> and assist in a review.

A pdf schematics is documentation about the hardware, it is not a source format
of the circuit board design. It does not make the circuit board free.

> 
> the PCB layout file - the complex part that, if somebody were to use
> it to **RIGHT NOW** place an order for 500 PCBs thus throwing this
> entire campaign into jeapoardy.... yes.

Then it is fair to say that the circuit board design is not free at this point
but may be freed later.

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, developer of low-level free software for embedded devices

Website: https://www.paulk.fr/
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