26 Apr
2013
26 Apr
'13
7:19 a.m.
On Apr 26, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 26/04/13 12:08 AM, Mouse wrote:
A very strange example for somebody who cares about open-ness to pick...
They are about as viciously proprietary a dinosaur as you can get.
Ah, but they're respected. In certain (powerful) circles. I think
that was probably the point; they're despicable, but respected.
I don't think OpenCores is despicable; they're about as close to
something like SourceForge as you get with FPGA stuff. I don't
think they have a license that they require you to use for projects
(or at least they didn't a few years ago), so lots of projects are
GPL or BSD licensed. GPL cores, obviously, present some issues
when using them in commercial products, but most of the ones I've
used are BSD or similar.
- Dave
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Opencores is a very well-respected organization.
That, in itself, says nothing - it's equally true of, say, Oracle.