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15 years ago

Altera Jam STAPL Player license

Hello,

I would have a question related to Altera Jam STAPL Player. I included this piece of code into my software, but now I am facing licensing issue. My project should be released under GPLv2 licence; however, I am not sure if Altera STAPL Player license is compliant. The most of license text seems to be compatible except the stuff about US export laws.

I have found an answer regarding very similar situation on gnu.org:

gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ExportWarranties

(Add "www" before the link; I am forbidden to share links because I am a new user of the forum)

There is also at least one project claiming to be GPLv2 and including Altera Jam STAPL Player source code. It is "myisp" on "google code" site.

I would like to prevent from any possible future troubles, so do you think, it is GPL compliant?

Michael

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    Hi there,

    The same question pops into my head and we found the license with the help of Google:

    https://www.altera.com/download/licensing/lic-jam.html

    So in summary altera add this to protect them self from being sued. They let you do and reuse the source code by adding your own license for your product. The only thing you need to do is to leave the "Copyright (C) Altera Corporation" in the source code + adding your own license.

    From that example see the modified source and they used this code to integrate it into there GPL license project.

    http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab/usb_stapl_player/index.html

    This is my own interpretation from the license and I'm not responsable from my bad understanding of it, if I'm not understanding it properly ;)