On 9/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A "good" is not relevant to the copyright law, so you can't apply a > "licence" on it. Maybe you could find a trick that do the same thing. But > a judge will never consider a chip as a derivative work of your code > because a derivative work is from the copyright domain.
If this is true, then neither Traversal nor OGP have any protection against anyone who would want to rip us off. But I recall stories of chip companies looking at each other's chips under a microscope and finding that the other had copied some of their circuit. This was considered to be a copyright violation. A circuit is merely a translation of the Verilog code that we have a copyright on. Mind you, someone could implement a similar algorithm and end up with a similar circuit. Proving in court that someone's chip is based on our Verilog code would be difficult, but if we find that they copied our bugs or other sorts of quirks, then we have evidence. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
