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Qcom is one of the few SoC manufacturers in the Android space to do all their thing out in the open and properly honouring the GPL-v2 licences.
by yaro330 1y ago
Qcom is one of the few SoC manufacturers in the Android space to do all their thing out in the open and properly honouring the GPL-v2 licences.
- userbinator 1y agoThat's pretty useless when they won't release the documentation for their SoCs.
- yaro330 1y agohttps://docs.qualcomm.com/ https://docs.qualcomm.com/ is pretty open.
- greatgib 1y agoI don't know your definition of open, when I reach this page, the only thing that I can see is a signup form because a "qualcomid" is needed...
- fragmede 1y agoIt doesn't seems unreasonable for them to want an email address before giving you PDFs of their stuff. They do want additional verification to get more detailed docs, but on the spectrum between available on the open Internet to all as a 1, vs only available on a hardwired line on a LAN on a military base at a 10, I'd give Qualcomm, I dunno, maybe 4?
- userbinator 1y agoIn contrast, Microchip (and Atmel before it was acquired) made the datasheets for the MCUs used by Arduinos truly publicly available.
- estimator7292 1y agoBasically everyone openly publishes their datasheets. It's normal and expected
- yaro330 1y agoSo make one.