Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] New version of VHDL code

Peter,

I echo David's concern and I wonder if we can discuss this more with Claudio. The IEEEa-SA has been receptive to the pre-payment of standards in order to offer them for free. I suggest we determine what that fee is and see if the industry can cover this cost to make it free for industry and the public to use.

Regards,

Dennis

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org <owner-vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org>
To: Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au>
CC: vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org <vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org>
Sent: Sun Aug 08 18:49:01 2004
Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x-ft] New version of VHDL code
Peter Ashenden wrote:
> David and colleagues,
> 
> I received a note from Claudio Stanziola, the IEEE-SA's IP and legal person,
> regarding the posting of the package files.  He indicated that public
> posting of IEEE copyrighted material is against IEEE policy, and requested
> that the material be kept in a protected area.
I feel very strongly that these packages NEED to be part of the public
domain.  If they are not, all of our hard work on VHDL-200X-FT won't
get used.  The reason that it took "numeric_std" so long to be
adopted was because vendors did not have free access to the source code.
> I've asked him for clarification of what kinds of material should be
> protected and to whom the material should be accessible.  I'm still awaiting
> a reply.
Please.   I feel that I have made a major mistake in donating the
fixed point and floating point packages if this is the case.
> Meanwhile, please be aware that we may be required to take action to limit
> access in some way.  I'll advise as soon as I can.
Limiting access may make it impossible to actually verify these packages.
I have several thousand lines of test vectors, just for the updates to
the current packages, and they are not exhaustive.  We will need to make
them publicly available not only for debugging, but to get them used and
our new standard accepted.
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