Re: fsf/chips

[Jamil Khatib <jamilkhatib75@yahoo.com>]

Hi all,


It is nice to see all this activites on the Hardware
license (hardware and hardware design protection as I
prefer to say it).

It was very long time since the last discussion about
that. I worked with graham and many other hardware
groups for more than a year on such protection
schemes.

As I remember for every discussion we end up with the
same results and conclusions. 
I summarized many of these results and discussions on
the OpenIPCore site at
http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/lic.shtml
it seems that we have to work again on it even though
I belive that there are some real problems even for
companies with protecting their designs.



my main objective (as always) is to try to state what
we want from a license and try to give them to experts
who can give us some advices

I'll start by my self in the week end to summarize all
what I think we need of a license

Regards
Jamil Khatib



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