Re: gEDA-user: Spice files

["evan foss" <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

The copyright is from the vendors not cadence. I am not a lawyer but
that would seem to mean that they don't want anyone to copy the
content they have there and redistribute it. They probably worked out
agreements with the vendors there to put all there content on one
page. I think you just have to make it clear that the download script
is just a script and while it is covered by the GPL the content it
downloads is not. It also should be made clear that it downloads the
content from vendor XYZ and that their license is used.

On 4/7/08, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:17:20 -0400, Karl Edler wrote:
>
>  > After a little poking around I found the following website full of SPICE
>  > models:
>  > http://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/downloads/pspice_models/index.aspx
>  >
>  > It might be worth a look.
>
>
> Two questions spring to my mind:
>
>  1) are these models compatible to gnucap and/or ngspice?
>
>  2) what about the copyright?
>  The terms of use the website footer says:
>
>  /------http://www.cadence.com/terms.aspx section 2.1 ----
>  The material you are downloading is copyrighted by Cadence Design
>  Systems, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. This work may not
>  be copied, modified, re-published, uploaded, executed, or distributed in
>  any way, in any medium, whether in whole or in part except pursuant to
>  express license terms agreed upon by Cadence and you.
>  \----------
>
>  I am not fluent in legalese, but this does not seem to prevent the
>  distribution of a download script...
>
>  Just my two cents.
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