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Apple Releases Free, OS-Independent, FireWire SDK
mcwop writes "Apple announced the release of a free FireWire SDK for embedded devices. The kit is not OS-dependent. Is this a response to the release of USB 2.0 or is Apple simply trying to keep a steady stream of FireWire devices coming? What effect will this have on FireWire b? What are the effects on the Open Source community developing FireWire interfaces? Time will tell. Nonetheless this is an interesting development."
The article is not about the damned SDK (for software drivers for OSses) its for the newly acquired Zayante TNF firewire firmware source.
Its a 23.7 MB download tar file called FirewireRefPlatform.tar and has NOTHING to do with the SDK and is crossplatform.
You are wrong about everything else: the liscense says you may not embed the firmware source in custom ASICS, PALS, custome circuits, or hardware....but only for firmware stored in roms, eeproms, flashram, etc. You may not hide your enhancements and bug fixes in silicon that can only be studied using electron microscopes!
Technally it di not spell out those restrictions so clearly, but its the point of the true "eval" words they meant.
Sheesh.
you are trying to flame troll and I would have ignored you entirely, but I think your +4 modded post was only modded up by other trollers and apple haters.
Did you even stufy the priceless goodies in FirewireRefPlatform.tar?
Did you even read the article?
Do you know what the hell you are talking about?
Quit making assumptions and follow the clearly labelled link in the article and download the FirewireRefPlatform.tar and read its liscence...
It is FREE and the eval part is that you are not allowed to hide the object code and not allowed to keep secret bugs you fix in distributed products without giving back.
Firewire on Mac-O-Sux may be polled slow crap compared to SCSI and Fibre but at least apples press releases are honest...... even if your +4 modded message is not.