Submit board schematics to OpenBMC docs repo

[Oskar Senft]

Thanks everyone, that makes sense!

Oskar.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:57 PM Sai Dasari <sdasari at fb.com> wrote:

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