Hello, As part of the Debian packaging process, I'm trying to track down the copyright and license terms of all parts of the GHDL source. Most of it is obviously GPL-2+ of course. Parts of the VHDL library have different licenses and those are mostly explicitly marked. However I can not find copyright information for some files in the IEEE libraries.
I guess there are ultimately two questions: 1) What are the license terms of the files? 2) Are the license terms acceptable for Debian? Right now I'm mostly concerned with the first question. libraries/ieee/std_logic_1164*.vhdl do not contain a copyright statement. Is there anything known about the origin of these files and the terms under which they may be used? libraries/ieee/numeric*.vhdl is copyright IEEE and may be distributed without change. libraries/ieee/math*.vhdl is copyright IEEE with unfavourable license. Can probably be replaced with latest IEEE2008 release to obtain relaxed license terms. libraries/ieee2008/* is copyright IEEE with unfavourable license. A newer release is available from IEEE under relaxed license terms. http://standards.ieee.org/downloads/1076/1076-2008/ libraries/vital95/* and libraries/vital2000/* do not contain a copyright statement. Is there anything known about the origin of these files and the terms under which they may be used? Thanks, Joris. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
