On 11/02/14 10:49, Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
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> My biggest concern now is std_logic_1164. I guess we could contact IEEE
> and ask them to confirm that the new license conditions for ieee2008 may
> also be applied to earlier versions. But it would be easy for them to say
> no.
>
I actually contacted the IEEE SA about this last year after the -2008
license change. I've attached the reply: basically the answer is no, but
you might be able to go through the normal license request process to
get redistribution license.
The original license still allows redistribution in binary form, so
perhaps you could split the Debian package into free and non-free parts?
Nick
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> I noticed recently on the vhdl-200x mailing list that the copyright header
> of the 1076-2008 packages had been updated to allow redistribution of
> unmodified copies. This is fantastic news, as the previous terms were very
> restrictive.
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> I'm currently developing an open source VHDL-1993 implementation (
> https://github.com/nickg/nvc). I.e. not a -2008 implementation, so the
> older 1076.2-1996 packages must be used instead. These are available from
> the IEEE supplemental material site here:
> http://standards.ieee.org/downloads/1076/1076.2-1996/
> But the license terms do not allow redistribution.
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> I was wondering if the IEEE had any plans to update the copyright headers
> on these older packages to allow redistribution under the same terms as the
> more recent -2008 packages? This seems reasonable as the 1076.2-1996
> packages are mostly a subset of the 1076-2008 ones which have bee
> re-licensed.
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> Regards,
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> Nick Gasson
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