Re: a licence i just discovered ...

[Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>]

hi !

Graham Seaman wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Yann Guidon wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hello dear co-listees,
>> 
>> i browsed a bit arounf the Manticore project and saw that
>> they use a copyleft licence called DESIGN SCIENCE LICENSE
>> and it can be read at http://www.dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
>> 
>> The interesting thing is that it is shorter than GPL,
>> and it can be read and mostly understood at first read.
>> However i don't know if it's completely problem-proof.
>> 
>> Did i miss something ?
>> 
> 
> I suggested this on the opencores list a while back. I've appended
> the most detailed comment on it to this mail (for the whole thread, see
> http://www.opencores.org/forums/cores/2002/04/ , with the title 'GNU GPL 
> LICENSE).

that's an excellent post. i would like to find time to analyse it
more carefully.

Currently the legal status with F-CPU is not "satifsfying"
because it seems to me that GPL is not adapted for a VHDL design.
The F-CPU charter will enhanced (maybe within a few months) with
some important details (the exact limits of the reach of the licence,
the limited ability to use proprietary modules that are software-generated
for RAM blocks, for example, etc.) but F-CPU is currently a burning
potatoe that nobody in the "business" would want to eat. We just want
it to be very spicy, not radioactive, however...

regards,

> Graham
WHYGEE
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