On 2014-02-11, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
I doubt that the Debian guys are willing to forget about headers. The longer I look at it, the more desperate the situation seems. The new IEEE 1076-2008 license [1] allows distribution of unmodified sources, but does not explicitly allow distribution in compiled form. This may imply that the compiled library can not be part of a binary GHDL distribution. I think the best solution is to split the package: 1) I will remove all library files except STD from the GHDL Debian package. The package can go to Debian contrib. 2) I will create a separate package with the mentor, synopsys and ieee2008 library sources. This package can go to Debian non-free. During post-installation, this package will split the library sources into separate versions for v87 and v93 and compile them with GHDL. It is a somewhat disappointing outcome. I had really hoped to reinstate a fully functional GHDL package in Debian main, but I don't see a good way to do that. Joris. -- [1] new IEEE 1076-2008 copyright statement: This source file is an essential part of IEEE Std 1076-2008, IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual. Verbatim copies of this source file may be used and distributed without restriction. Modifications to this source file as permitted in IEEE Std 1076-2008 may also be made and distributed. All other uses require permission from the IEEE Standards Department([email protected]). All other rights reserved. --
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