Re: [avrdude-dev] Atmel's XML part description files

[E. Weddington]

Brian Dean wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:05:42PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Just assume for a moment they'd completely withdraw their XML files
> > some day, or restructure them completely -- we'd be lost then.
> >    
>
> That was my feeling and concern also.
>
> As for automatically processing them and extracting the needed
> parameters, I think we need to be careful.  All the information from
> in the avrdude.conf file is pulled from the data sheets.  We would
> need to double check the licensing that the Atmel XML files are
> distributed under and be sure to conform and not violate any of the
> conditions.
>  
Right. I would think that as long as the data in the XML files that we 
need, are also available in the data sheet, then that would fall under 
publically available information. As long as we don't import the whole 
hog, I think we'll be fine.

> Considering that the AVR068 Application Note "STK500 Communications
> Protocol" explicitly instructs one to obtain the needed paramter sets
> for specific devices from the XML files provided by Atmel, I would
> find it hard to imagine that we would not be allowed to pull out the
> data we need from them and include it into the avrdude.conf file or
> similar.
>  
Agreed.

Eric