Re: [ng-spice-devel] Your request re: Spice


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Tue, 23 May 2000 08:56:48 +0200 (CEST)
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Arno W. Peters wrote:

> Note that in the original note there was only the mention of an Open
> Source mode.  Open Source is a bigger collection of licenses than just
> the GPL.

I think that Newton is thinking to the new BSD license. 

> If the resulting license is like X11 (i.e., BSD without the
> advertising clause), we can point out that the BSIM3 model can only be
> used in a non-commercial or educational environment.  Perhaps someone
> is inclined to code up a BSIM3 model from the ground up if the BSIM3
> model is not forthcoming.

Yes, but rembember that we can link it as module ala Linux kernel. The
real point, in my opinion, is the one pointed out by Manu: the split. I
suppose that Newton would ojly "port" spice3 to open source, fixing the
copyright statements on the headers, doing only small modification to the
sources, like the first one we did: the removal of non-stdc and ms-dos
parts.

We would like to develop a simulator under GPL and this will inevitably
produce anither tree, will him accept it ?


Paolo


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