For your information, I have sent following e-mail to Altera and entered to their online contact form (it is not easy to find relevant e-mail to Altera company, though). I hope they will respond.
However, in my oppinion, the licensing is clear and there is no obstacle between Altera's code and GPLv2. Greetings, Marek ----- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:44:49 +0100 (CET) From: Marek Peca <p...@vzlu.cz> To: i...@altera.com Cc: michael.va...@gmail.com, lists.sourceforge....@duch.cz Subject: Altera Jam Player license -- suppose it is GPLv2 compatible Ladies and gentlemen, with a great pleasure, we have discovered Altera Jam Player, the JEDEC STAPL format interpreter with source code offered at your website. The software has a great potential to become widespread, if several people would take care of its further development. My colleague Michael (see Cc:) has ported your player (the altered version, derived by Actel company) and connected it with a well-known JTAG master implementation, open-source software called UrJTAG <http://urjtag.org/>. It contains several very well done back-ends for a lot of different JTAG hardware. E.g. we use it among others with your Altera USB Blaster for years. This software junction has been considered to be a good idea by some people of the community. So the developers are willing to adopt Altera's Jam Player into UrJTAG mainline, what would be a marvelous step in further development of both Altera Jam Player, as well as the UrJTAG and possibly other open-source software. Lots of Altera Jam Player bugs may get fixed (yesterday I have busted one very nasty, around waiting loops), maybe the software will then be pushed by someone to become fully JEDEC compliant. * The question is, whether the Altera license for Jam Player *is* compatible with GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). In my oppinion, it is compatible, since all the copyright, Altera authorship information and propagation as well as warranty disclaimer would be preserved. See end of the following discussion: http://tinyurl.com/48geznl However, I would like to have the thing confirmed directly by you before we suggest to officially join the UrJTAG and Altera Jam Player. Thank you for your great software. Best regards, Marek Peca Aeronautical Test and Research Institute, Praha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ UrJTAG-development mailing list UrJTAG-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/urjtag-development
