I've been playing with the 383L+ again for a couple of hours and one aspect may be a sticking point of ATIK support in AOSX - the copyright of the CCD firmware.

In short, each time the ATIK driver initialises the ATIK high speed cameras, it downloads a small application that runs on the 383L's 8051 microcontroller.

I'm assuming this firmware is written by ATIK, or at least not by Cypress, and therefore I suspect this would be copyrighted to ATIK (although no copyright is present in the code).

Thus if we take the firmware and provide it as part of AOSX support for ATIK cameras - it could place me and others in the legal firing line..

I'll ping ATIK an email but, given the zero response to my previous emails - I'm not expecting that ATIK will authorise it.

Technically it's possible.