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Wishbone copyright
by Alfiqar on Sep 4, 2012 |
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Hello!
We are writing the report of our thesis, it's a wishbone project. We want to include some of the figures found in the wishbone specification and of course refer to it. We read the chapter aboute copyright in wishbone b4 spec, but still we want to know if the owner allows it. Who do we ask? thank you for your consideration of this matter |
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RE: Wishbone copyright
by jeremybennett on Sep 6, 2012 |
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Hello!
We are writing the report of our thesis, it's a wishbone project. We want to include some of the figures found in the wishbone specification and of course refer to it. We read the chapter aboute copyright in wishbone b4 spec, but still we want to know if the owner allows it. Who do we ask? thank you for your consideration of this matter Hi Alfiqar IIRC WishBone is licensed under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License), so you can use it freely, just so long as you note that it is licensed under the LGPL. To be certain look in the source for a file named "COPYING" and "COPYING.LESSER", which spells out your rights and obligations. HTH Jeremy
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RE: Wishbone copyright
by Alfiqar on Sep 6, 2012 |
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Hello Jeremy and thanks for your answer!
I don�t know which source file you mean, but when searched for �COPYING.LESSER� in Google I found this: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/Scene/COPYING.LESSER.txt And I could not find any thing about copying figures from a document. The thing is that I just want to use the figures to introduce the Wishbone bus, for our work we have our own figures. I also emailed the person who is responsible for the Wishbone Specification but no answer from him. Here is the link to Wishbone specification B4: http://cdn.opencores.org/downloads/wbspec_b4.pdf |
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RE: Wishbone copyright
by robopanda333 on Sep 6, 2012 |
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If you are talking about the actual manual and the images therein, i believe they themselves are the "source". You may copy, modify, or otherwise use them, as long as the modifications themselves are also used as lgpl. anything that you make with these images does not need be lgpl, because you would be using the images as a "library", however, in the appendix you must include either the actual lgpl, or some way to get it.
no contact with the creator is necessary. |
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RE: Wishbone copyright
by jeremybennett on Sep 7, 2012 |
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Hi Alfiqar I've just looked at the B4 specification. Here is what is says on page 3. "Notice is hereby given that this document is not copyrighted, and has been placed into the public domain. It may be freely copied and distributed by any means." Leaving aside the detailed legal arguments about jurisdictions that don't have a concept of "public domain", I would say you can use any of the content as you wish! Common courtesy would suggest you should reference Richard Herveille as original author. To be honest, the document's licensing is a bit of a mess. On the preceding page it talks about distribution rights, but since the content has been placed into the public domain, those are not enforceably anyway! The usual caveat, IANAL (I am Not a Lawyer) applies! HTH Jeremy |
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