Dear Mike,

it is Michael who did the main work on the port, however I will try to 
answer, since it has been my idea to combine Altera Jam player & UrJTAG.

> thanks.  this patch can easily be split up -- the *.stp pieces do not need to
> be included.  once you cut those out, the patch easily compresses to under
> 100KiB and thus could make it attached onto the mailing list.

Of course. However, we wanted to provide at least some feature specific 
STAPL example for people to try. It seems Michael was unable to find a 
tiny "read_idcode" example. Sorry for that big file size.

> obvious problems with the code:
> - do not use tabs anywhere
> - do not leave trailing white space anywhere

Leaving for Michael to reindent it.

> on to the fun topic of licensing.  i see there is a stapl/COPYING file in
> here.  either all of the source is released under the GPL-2 (and thus this
> dedicated COPYING is useless and should be punted), or we cannot merge it.
> any code going into urjtag must be GPL-2 compliant.

I understand. I have read the license, but haven't examined it in depth. 
For a first sight, it seems to me to be compatible with GPLv2. However, we 
are not 100% sure, so we are providing the patch with a proper licence 
inside. If the UrJTAG maintainers agree with my oppinion, that the license 
is GPLv2 compatible, then it is OK to remove the COPYING file, indeed. 
There is a notice about Altera origins and Actel modifications in README, 
so there really needn't be the COPYING for UrJTAG release.

I have found at least two projects at opensource repositories, claiming 
BSD or GPL-* compatibility and containing somewhat ported Altera player 
code, so I suppose that I am not the only one, who reads Altera licence as 
being compatible with GPL(v2,v3).


Greetings,
Marek

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