Jack wrote: > I think it was Intel that did this some years back. They > copyrighted the masks as images.
Congress passed a new law explicitly allowing copyrights on semiconductor masks starting in 1984. The first chip to have copyright registration as a "mask work" was the MicroVAX II chip from Digital Equipment Corporation. As you state, this doesn't really help protect RTL. Eric _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
