Guilherme Brondani Torri <guito...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently maintaining the ADMS package (LGPL 2.1). > > The package is now hosted at: > https://github.com/Qucs/ADMS > > The two headers that are causing us trouble are these: > https://github.com/Qucs/ADMS/blob/master/admsXml/constants.vams > https://github.com/Qucs/ADMS/blob/master/admsXml/disciplines.vams > > We received a request to update to the latest version of the headers. See: > https://sourceforge.net/p/mot-adms/patches/4/ > > The new headers from LRM 2.4.0 (May 2014), annex D. have the following > copyright notice: > > // Copyright(c) 2009-2014 Accellera Systems Initiative Inc. > // 1370 Trancas Street #163, Napa, CA 94558, USA. > // > // The material in disciplines.vams is an essential part of the Accellera > Systems > // Initiative ("Accellera") Verilog-AMS Language Standard. Verbatim copies of > // the material in this Annex may be used and distributed without restriction. > // All other uses require permission from Accellera IP Committee > // (ipr-ch...@lists.accellera.org). > // All other rights reserved. > // > // Version 2.4.0 > > How ADMS stand on this context? > > Can distribute at all the new headers? > > Does the new headers change anything with respect to Debian package inclusion > policy?
The license for the new headers is not a free license. I think it could go into non-free. You could, in principle, extract the constants from NIST yourself. The disciplines.vams file is more complicated, because it is not just constants. It looks like a number of tolerances that have been chosen somewhat arbitrarily. Maybe you could ask Accellera for a better license? IETF RFC's have the same problem, and cause recurring problems for Debian. https://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments Cheers, Walter Landry
