Re: Xilinx Legal

cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> John Williams wrote:
>
>
>>What you've now created is a hybrid license, incompatible with the pure
>>GPL (ok, so you can't host it on sourceforge, no big deal). If someone
>>uses the tool to target an Altera part, then they are breaking the
>>conditions of their license and it is therefore immediately revoked.
>>
>>You would add a viral clause which makes sure that further refinements
>>of the tool are also covered by the same dual condition (GPL + Xilinx only).
>
>
> But what if someone figures out XDL by reverse engineering your tool,
> rather than Xilinx's software? How do you prohibit someone from
> reverse engineering (ie, reading and taking notes) open code?
>

I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter. The purpose of "though shalt
only target Xilinx parts" is to keep Xilinx off your back. If someone
reads your code and reimplements the XDL parser for Evil, instead of
Good, maybe it's Xilinx problem to pursue, and not yours?

John


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