<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone, that makes sense!<div><br></div><div>Oskar.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:57 PM Sai Dasari <<a href="mailto:sdasari@fb.com">sdasari@fb.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 11/26/18, 10:58 AM, "openbmc on behalf of Brad Bishop" <openbmc-bounces+sdasari=<a href="mailto:fb.com@lists.ozlabs.org" target="_blank">fb.com@lists.ozlabs.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com" target="_blank">bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 14:26 -0800, Ed Tanous wrote:<br>
> On 11/16/18 11:58 AM, Oskar Senft wrote:<br>
> > Is there a good place in OpenBMC to post that? Maybe the docs repo?<br>
> > It's 4 PDF files with < 10 MiB in total. Having this information<br>
> > publicly posted by them would make development much easier.<br>
> <br>
> One thing I wonder is whether or not we (the OpenBMC project) wants<br>
> to<br>
> be in the business of hosting hardware schematics. It feels a little<br>
> bit out of our wheelhouse. It seems like a much better thing for an<br>
> organization like OCP to manage, who deals in a lot of open physical<br>
> hardware, and understands the licenses and subtleties around hosting<br>
> that kind of documentation.<br>
> <br>
> For example, is the company planning on releasing the schematics with<br>
> a<br>
> creative commons, Apache, or MIT license? I have no idea the<br>
> subtleties<br>
> of that when it comes to hardware schematics, but maybe someone else<br>
> does? Does posting the schematics with that license open the<br>
> possibility of someone copying the hardware?<br>
> <br>
> Maybe it makes more sense to post it somewhere outside the OpenBMC<br>
> project (the companies website perhaps) then post a link to it to the<br>
> mailing list?<br>
> <br>
> I'm mostly just thinking out loud at this point.<br>
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> <br>
> <br>
> As far as where we put it if we do decide to host it, I don't think a<br>
> git repo is the right choice. Schematics aren't likely to be source<br>
> controlled (given that they're going to be board files and PDFs, not<br>
> editable schematics) so some kind of file drop seems like a better<br>
> choice than the docs repository.<br>
> <br>
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fwiw I agree with Ed on all points here...<br>
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@Oskar Senft Based on this recommendation, I think it would be good to host schematics outside the github and provide a softlink as a reference. <br>
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