Re: [vhdl-200x] Code sharing

Hi Joan,
With the current economy, EDA vendors want cost
effective ways of implementing verification features.
One trade-off we are going to need to make is between
implementing features as syntax and implementing
features in open source sharable libraries.

I for see the development of these libraries as
open source rather than IEEE standards as they
will need to be kept on a much shorter update and
review cycle than IEEE balloting facilitates.

At a minimum, we will need a large degree of cooperation
and interaction between the standards group and
the people developing open source libraries. If these
open source libraries are going to be a candidate
replacement for language syntax features, the VHDL
committee may wish to review these libraries and
comment on them on this reflector and in IEEE VHDL
meetings.

Since the set of people working on the two projects
overlaps, it would be simpler from an administration
perspective that we use a shared email reflector for
both activities.

So if we discuss what we are doing as an open source
community on the VHDL-200X reflector (hosted on eda.org)
and/or the VHDL-200X reflector is shared between an IEEE
project and an open source VHDL library project,
is IEEE going to make any claims to the work produced?
If so, how do we coordinate activity between an IEEE
working group and an open source VHDL library group?

If we need a separate reflector for the open source work,
do we need a separate reflector? I note that
eda.org hosts both Accellera groups, some of which
produce open source libraries, as well as IEEE groups.

Thanks,
Jim

> Hi Jim,
>
> As you know, the IEEE owns the copyright to anything developed in the WG.
> The old packages have the IEEE copyright statement in them. Likewise,
> IEEE would own the copyright to new packages if they are
> developed by the WG.
>
> Regards,
> Joan

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