El jue, 21-12-2006 a las 14:19 -0800, Jeff Carr escribió: > On 12/19/06 07:50, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi, > > I've filled an ITP[1] on a freehdl. The upstream authors licensed it as > > GPL, but I've found in the source tarball one vhdl header file > > How did you determine the upstream authors didn't have permission? Easy: via email with them. Anyway I'm not saying they didn't have permission, I'm just asking if including that file in the source tarball is dfsg compatible. > > > ( ieee/numeric_bit.vhdl), with this copyright message: > > > > ############################# -- Copyright 1995 by IEEE. All rights > > reserved. -- -- This source file is considered by the IEEE to be an > > essential part of the use -- of the standard 1076.3 and as such may > > be distributed without change, except -- as permitted by the > > standard. This source file may not be sold or distributed -- for > > profit. This package may be modified to include additional data > > required -- by tools, but must in no way change the external > > interfaces or simulation -- behaviour of the description. It is > > permissible to add comments and/or -- attributes to the package > > declarations, but not to change or delete any -- original lines of > > the approved package declaration. The package body may be -- > > changed only in accordance with the terms of clauses 7.1 and 7.2 of > > the -- standard. -- -- Title : Standard VHDL Synthesis > > Package (1076.3, NUMERIC_BIT) > > This sounds exactly correct to me. > > It's a standard. You can't change it. If you want to change it, you > have to petition the IEEE VHDL standards body. > http://www.eda.org/vhdl-200x/ > I know, I know, but the remaining question is: can that source tarball be uploaded to main in Debian or not?
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