From: Mike F. <va...@ge...> - 2011-01-21 00:35:02
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On Thursday, January 20, 2011 19:22:38 Marek Peca wrote: > >> (..) If the UrJTAG maintainers agree with my oppinion, that the license > >> is GPLv2 compatible, then it is OK to remove the COPYING file, indeed. > >> There is a notice about Altera origins and Actel modifications in > >> README, so there really needn't be the COPYING for UrJTAG release. > > > > i'm not really comfortable putting my rubber stamp on this. would it be > > possible for you guys to make inquiries with Altera ? or perhaps contact > > the SFLC to see if they'll take a look ? > > Yes, I consider contacting Altera to be a good idea. I only wanted to have > some feedback from the UrJTAG group that it does have a sense (ie. that > some of you guys is not finishing much better STAPL player just now). > I will write them soon. > > Besides this, I may contact our local opensource freedom guru prof. Ales > Cepek for his oppinion. (But being quite sure he has lots of much more > interesting problems to resolve...) if the licensing issue is resolved, i dont know of any reason for not including it. and i havent seen anyone else posting STAPL support for UrJTAG. i'm not looking for a lawyer to sign off on anything legally binding, just someone more knowledgeable in this sort of thing saying that it's ok (in their opinion couched in legal experience). -mike |