IEEE copyrighted files in vhdl tools

2006-12-19 Thread L. Redrejo
Hi, I've filled an ITP[1] on a freehdl. The upstream authors licensed it as GPL, but I've found in the source tarball one vhdl header file ( ieee/numeric_bit.vhdl), with this copyright message: # -- Copyright 1995 by IEEE. All rights reserved. -- -- This source file is

Re: IEEE copyrighted files in vhdl tools

2006-12-19 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:50, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: This file is needed to use any vhdl compiling/simulation tool, and I've later noticed that ghdl [2], already accepted in Debian, contains more vhdl headers, and even body vhdl copyrighted files that are delivered as binary