[Coco] FPGA 63x09

[Kish Tailor]

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On 29 Mar 2009, at 16:01, Stephen Adolph <twospruces at gmail.com> wrote:

> Relax dude.
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:04 AM,  <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:
>>
>> LET ME MAKE THIS VERY SIMPLE AND QUITE LOUDLY. I AM VERY
>> WELL AWARE OF COPYRIGHT LAWS. I HAVE ALREADY STARTED
>> WRITING A 6309 CORE BEFORE I SAW THE GM CORE. I ALREADY
>> HAVE THE ALU AND THE REGISTER STACK CODED PLUS SOME OF
>> THE STARTS OF THE STATE MACHINE AND OTHER LOGIC. YES I
>> GET IDEAS FROM ALL SOURCES.  MAINLY FROM ONE OF MY
>> TEXTBOOKS.
>>
>> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> IT IS MY WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>> DO YOU COMPREHEND???????????
>>
>> I DO USE KILL FILTERS AND THIS  IF THIS THREAD GOES ANY
>> FURTHER, I DO PLAN TO DO SO.
>>
>>
>> JAMES
>>
>> On 29 Mar 2009 at 3:16, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>>
>>> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>>>> good grief. Unless you are a lawyer giving me free advice then I  
>>>> may
>>>> consider what you have stated. As I have declared before I do not
>>>> care to get into a debate on copyright laws here. Been there and
>>>> have done that before on this forum.
>>>
>>> Look, I'll break this down for you real quick. You have several
>>> choices, as you have already outlined before. One of which is a  
>>> freely
>>> available, modifiable, and redistributable package that anyone can  
>>> use
>>> (but which you don't like), and another where the owner says "YOU
>>> CANNOT DO THIS".
>>>
>>> You can start from scratch, rewrite somebody else's code legally, or
>>> rip someone off; and your statement is that you would rather rip
>>> someone off than do something properly, because the code you want to
>>> rip off is in a style you like better than another one.
>>>
>>> This isn't even a copyright debate, it's just a big "fuck you" to  
>>> both
>>> the guys at Green Mountain who lets you make your own products using
>>> their IP core, and the numerous guys out there (like whats-his-name
>>> who did the 6809 core used in the FPGA CoCo project) who actually DO
>>> create IP cores that are freely available (unlike GM's) for projects
>>> like you're planning.
>>>
>>> Even ignoring copyright, the Green Mountain guys laid it out plainly
>>> that as a condition of your own use of the IP core, you aren't  
>>> allowed
>>> to give it to anyone else---only to deploy it (modified or not) in
>>> product form. Even if it were not framed in terms of copyright,  
>>> it's a
>>> breach of contract. The only reason you are allowed to use the damn
>>> thing at all is because of those conditions, which you would be
>>> breaking.
>>>
>>> Even things like NitrOS-9 exist in SOME sort of gray area, while
>>> you're basically telling GM to go screw themselves in punishment for
>>> their own good deeds.
>>>
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