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16 years ago

jamplayer for linux?

Hi,

I work for a hardware company that uses several Altera hardware devices. As part of our standard workflow we need to program some CPLD units.

It turned out that this would be best done (in our workflow) under Linux. While the Altera site does not mention a software for doing so to run under Linux, there seem to be a version of the command-line JamPlayer converted to work under Linux. It generally built fine. There were a few warnings, but all in all it worked. So far so good.

However trying to build it under a newer version fails. Mostly trivial programming bugs that were easy to fix. I fixed them and wanted to submit my fixes back. Only to realize that:

1. That code is not maintained by anybody

2. The license under which it is used hardly allows modification, not to mention their distribution.

I can live with (1) . I can maintain it myself until someone else will come. But (2) is something only Altera can fix.

Any chance the code will be relicensed under a more convenient license? Who can I contact?

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Tzafrir Cohen, tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    I am not sure I follow your comments on the Jamplayer license.

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

    Doesnt seem to meaningfully restrict people at all.

    "Altera grants to you a worldwide, nonexclusive, perpetual license (with the right to grant sublicenses, and authorize sublicensees to sublicense further) to use, copy, prepare derivative works based on, and distribute the programs and derivative works thereof, ..."

    The license terms are contagious to derivatives, but appear only to be that altera disavows liabilty and asks you not to break US export laws.

    And I have seen dieravatives available on the web, eg a beaglebone for for Jamplayer at: https://github.com/richardplunkett/jamplayer-beaglebone