> Hello, > > As part of the Debian packaging process, I'm trying to track down the > copyright and license terms of all parts of the GHDL source. Most of > it > is obviously GPL-2+ of course. Parts of the VHDL library have > different > licenses and those are mostly explicitly marked. However I can not > find > copyright information for some files in the IEEE libraries. > > I guess there are ultimately two questions: 1) What are the license > terms of the files? 2) Are the license terms acceptable for Debian? > Right now I'm mostly concerned with the first question. > > libraries/ieee/std_logic_1164*.vhdl do not contain a copyright > statement. Is there anything known about the origin of these files > and > the terms under which they may be used? > > libraries/ieee/numeric*.vhdl is copyright IEEE and may be distributed > without change. > > libraries/ieee/math*.vhdl is copyright IEEE with unfavourable > license. > Can probably be replaced with latest IEEE2008 release to obtain > relaxed license terms.
In fact they were. But the header hasn't changed. I have added README.ieee in libraries/ieee which explain the copyright status: "" The licensing change allows the standard’s supplemental materials or “packages” to be made available to the public without prior authorization from the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). "" > libraries/ieee2008/* is copyright IEEE with unfavourable license. > A newer release is available from IEEE under relaxed license terms. > http://standards.ieee.org/downloads/1076/1076-2008/ > > libraries/vital95/* and libraries/vital2000/* do not contain a > copyright statement. Is there anything known about the origin of > these > files and the terms under which they may be used? They were found on the web, but I agree the status is not clear. Maybe they should be removed from debian distributions until this is clarified. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
