Re: Electrical Engineering / IC design packages
> IC design is an area where unix is important and where for a tremendous
> amount of tools source code is available (although most of the
> commercial one are only available as binary for commercial unixes). I do
> not know any distribution (even for commercial systems), which has many
> of these free packages included.
>
> If Debian could offer to a preconfigured system with all these
> applications, many institutions would run Linux workstations beside the
> commercial systems, since they save the installation effort for each
> individual package.
>
> Is anybody thinking of debianising the major packages in this field?
I agree! But the copyright is held to the university (berkeley).
> (http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/Software/software.html)
>
> (I did not check the copyright of each individual package, but at least
> source code is available for most of them)
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NOTICE: Before you download any software please be aware of the University's copyright
policies.
...
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for
educational, research and non-profit
purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted,
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Ok, it could go to non-free. Get the software and make a debian package!!
On my harddisk i have other electronic-software (the chipmunk software), but
it's a little bit big;
5016922 Oct 3 02:33 chipmunk_1.0.orig.tar.gz and all GPL!
Bye,
Hartmut
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