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From: Graham Seaman<graham@o...>
Date: Mon Mar 10 11:43:17 CET 2008
Subject: [oc] legal aspects of free designs
Hi,Wade Peterson of Silicore (the Wishbone people) has just released a loong
article called 'The creation of interoperable integrated circuits using clean
room design practice', a large part of which is about the legal hazards of
trying to create free or open designs in a proprietary world. In particular
he's proposing a system called 'CLASS' (Configurable Logic Array
Superstructure) which should give a clear separation between parts of a
design controlled by copyright law (and so ok to put under free licenses) and
parts controlled by patent law.
I don't have the legal knowledge to follow all the implications of this,
would be interested to hear what others think. I've put a copy on
http://www.opencollector.org/hardlicense/CleanRoomDsnPrac.pdf (with Wade's
permission).
Cheers
Graham
PS apologies if this arrives twice - I've forgotten which mail account I'm
subscribed from...
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