Hello there, I want to package alliance for fedora, which is a powerful and the best in digital VLSI design. http://www-asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ ALLIANCE is a complete set of CAD tools and portable libraries for research and education in digital VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, automatic place and route, DRC, extractor, functional abstraction and formal proof tools etc... All the ALLIANCE cell libraries use a symbolic layout approach in order to provide process independence: Cmos process from 1.6 micron to 0.8 micron have been successfully targetted. However I'm a bit concerned about their license. They called it GPL version 2 and distribute a copy of it: http://www-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/distribution/5.0/ But on their webpage they wrote: Alliance VLSI CAD System is free software. Binaries, source code and cells libraries are freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs without any fee. You are kindly requested to mention : "Designed with Alliance (c) LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie" This particular line confuses me: "You are kindly requested to mention : "Designed with Alliance (c) LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie" How would I mention it ? or will fedora permit such"mention" ? However each time a tool under the alliance umbrella is launched under the konsole, it will spit: (for example: graal) [build@goorah ~]$ graal @@@@ @ @@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @ @@ @@ @@@ @@@ @@@@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@ @ @@ @ @@ @@ @@@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @ @@ @@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@ @@ @ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@@ @@ @@@@ @@@@ @@@@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@@@@@ Graphic layout editor Alliance CAD System 5.0 20060509, graal 5.0 Copyright (c) 1999-2007, ASIM/LIP6/UPMC Author(s): Ludovic Jacomme and Frederic Venot E-mail : alliance-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx There are also some examples which contains copyrighted materials from Cadence. Surely, if ever alliance would enter the fedora collection, those examples would be removed. So what do you think about it ? Can I still ask for review ? There was a discussion in the debian community as well: http://osdir.com/ml/debian.devel.legal/2002-04/msg00007.html This is part of a tutorial I'm writing on how to use alliance (which needs to be completed): http://chitlesh.googlepages.com/full_adder_alliance regards, Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
