gEDA-user: Re: gEDA: Open-source C compiler targets FPGAs

[John Griessen <john_g@cibolo.com>]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 02:53, phartke@stanford.edu wrote:

> While Streams-C is "completely open" for research or government work, 
> Gokhale said LANL is still working out licensing for commercial 
> users. "One of the contributions of this work is that the source code 
> is completely open," she said. "Anybody can look at it and see how to 
> do behavioral synthesis. It's very useful as a teaching tool." 
> 

So does this mean the publishing of it is like a software patent trojan
horse?  IF we look at their code, then rewrite and reapply it, they own
our project?


John Griessen