On 2014-01-12, [email protected] wrote: > > What is the license status of GHDL generated binaries? > > This is clear: It's GPL because the runtime is pure GPL.
Well, it is clear now in the sense that I understand your argument and I think it is valid. However, this was not clear to me before and the answer is not what I expected. Most compilers I know produce binaries which may be distributed without restrictions. This is certainly true for GCC, and I think it is true even for MSVC etc. Until now, I had passively assumed it would also be true for GHDL. To be clear, we are talking about the copyright of GHDL output, right? Obviously /usr/bin/ghdl is GPL, that is a different matter. But now it appears that ./testbench is also restricted by GPL. Saying that ./testbench is licensed under GPL is not entirely accurate. In many cases ./testbench is a derived work based on my own VHDL code, third party VHDL code and the GHDL source. As a result, several different parties own copyrights on ./testbench. Joris. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
