Hey, Matt Roberds wrote: > It might be out of scope for lm-sensors, but I wonder if it would be a > good idea to collect the datasheets on the various hardware monitoring > chips and possibly make them available on the lm-sensors site. I know > the Devices page has links to the manufacturer pages, but these can and > do change or go away. > This has been discussed before, see: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-July/020393.html Just to quote Hans-J?rgen Koch >> Useful, yes. But I guess it's simply a legal problem. Just because a >> datasheet can be downloaded for free from the manufacturers website >> doesn't mean that you are entitled to re-publish it on your site. >> You'd have to obtain permission (in writing) for each datasheet, >> otherwise you can easily run into legal problems. And Jean Delvare >> Hans is unfortunately correct. Ensuring the legality of such a >> datasheet hosting would be a real pain. >> When possible we link to the datasheets on our Device wiki page, this >> should be sufficient in most cases. For older devices, datasheets are >> sometimes no longer available from the manufacturer's website, I admit >> this is a problem, but in that case, an interested developer can always >> contact the driver author, who hopefully can either share a copy of the >> datasheet or at least answer questions Ivo Manca > Matt Roberds > Ivo Manca > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors > >
