> On 11/02/14 10:49, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > > > > 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?
IANAL, but I don't understand the reply the same way you does: they won't change the headers, but they don't apply. from the IEEE press release: “This licensing change is very important to vendors and users of VHDL,” said Stan Krolikoski, chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC), which supported the modification to the license for the supplemental materials. “We worked closely with the IEEE 1076 VHDL Analysis and Standardization Working Group to allow anyone to use these files, within the guidelines of the IEEE 1076-2008 standard, of course. The previous header to the standard’s supplemental packages instructed users to request permission from the IEEE-SA for all uses, which is no longer required.” So I think this apply to all versions of 1076* standard (in particular, you can download from ieee.org the old versions of std_logic_1164). Just forget about the header. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
