[Open-graphics] New member Q&A

[John Griessen]

Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> On 2/25/08, John Griessen <john at foseda.com> wrote:

> For Traversal to earn revenue, we need "unlimited rights" to the
> schematics and other copyrightable materials.  But at the same time,
> we also release our stuff under GPL.  Look up how TrollTech and MySQL
> do their dual-licensing scheme.  Ours is similar.
> 
>>  Will we be able to reuse verilog built into it?
> 
> Under GPL.  Or alternatively, if you want to make a proprietary
> product, you can pay us a commercial licensing fee.  

[jg]sounds compatible with my plan to make mechanically simple, shoe-box scale
seeing-eye-bots that cost $75 each and are open hardware with TAPR license.
If they became a hit, they could be packaged proprietary and pay you royalties
for a test spin with FPGAs, then hire you to make a custom chip.  Sounds like you plan on being
an open code friendly fabless chip company.

> 
Adding OGP functions in FPGA or TT's planned ASIC chip
>>  would be a boon to embedded linux boards, or possibly even cheaper lower power processors -- for machine vision
>>  for little robots, (no PC motherboards, just 3 or 4 chips).
> 
> That would be very cool.

[jg]Does a 32 bit kind of linux-2.6-running chip sound like a good match for OGA1, or is
an interface to a 16 bit low power MSP430 microcontroller reasonable too?

John Griessen