Re: Freeness of vague Synopsys license

2017-11-21 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:11:28AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andreas Bombe writes ("Freeness of vague Synopsys license"): > > Keeping these files would be "nice to have" but not a requirement. Users > > with legacy VHDL projects using Synopsys libraries would

Re: Freeness of vague Synopsys license

2017-11-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Bombe writes ("Freeness of vague Synopsys license"): > I am currently working on reintroducing GHDL into Debian. It is a VHDL > compiler/simulator that includes non-standard VHDL libraries from > various vendors and I have to throw out most of them (unlike before, it &

Re: Freeness of vague Synopsys license

2017-11-19 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Bombe writes: > I'm now unsure whether I should keep the Synopsys libraries which > found some wider use before its features were finally offered by the > VHDL language standard. > > Here is the copyright statement and license from one of the files in > its entirety: Thank you for naming

Freeness of vague Synopsys license

2017-11-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
I am currently working on reintroducing GHDL into Debian. It is a VHDL compiler/simulator that includes non-standard VHDL libraries from various vendors and I have to throw out most of them (unlike before, it now comes with the core standard libraries reimplemented under a free license). I'm now un