Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
Let's put it the other way around: how many people WITHOUT access
to a
commercial simulator would be interested in this package ? What if you
are in my case, where you have a Fedora server which shares the content
and dozens of users using Centos + non-free EDA tools ?
Then why can't you just install the data from the tarball? What does Fedora
have to gain by offering it to you?
As of "would possibly install this package, get confused, be
unable to
run it" it's easy to solve with a single one liner in %Description: "For
the moment you will need <add proper application name here> to use it".
That would be advertising the proprietary application.
This package is interesting for a subset of the people interested in
EDA. And I am confident that most if not all of those people have access
to the commercial tools, either via academic licenses or plain
enterprise licenses. It's a domain where simply put, there exists NO
free equivalent for the commercial tools. Sad but true. Some bits have
been touched but there is a very long way to go to reach even 20% of
what the commercial tools do. And I can tell that as a person who
has/used to have access to beta releases of Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor
Graphics tools and has tried to convince fellow colleagues to use free
tools instead of the commercial ones. As I have already told, the only
success was using gtkwave IF the licenses for commercial products were
already occupied by other engineers [*].
Making it easier to use the proprietary tools is not the way to change that,
quite the opposite.
Kevin Kofler