Hello Nick, On 2014-02-11, Nick Gasson 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.
Thanks, it is very helpful to know their response to this question. (Although the response itself is not very helpful.) > The original license still allows redistribution in binary form, so > perhaps you could split the Debian package into free and non-free > parts? Even the new license restricts the right to modify the libraries. In my understanding, this means that the package is already squarely in the non-free archive. It is still a question however whether the IEEE copyright is permissive enough even for Debian non-free. You mention an original license. Do you actually have a copy of std_logic_1164.vhdl (-93) with a copyright license? The versions that I can find do not contain any copyright statement at all. Thanks, Joris.
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