Hello, I'm beginning a project that I'd like the design code (Verilog) to be in LGPL 2.1 or later, and am considering GFDL for documentation. <br><br>Someone elsewhere has noted that if documentation is derived from design/program source code that it can affect the documentation license compatibility, such as using Doxygen types of things. For this, I'm writing a specification and hopefully test plan document, and would like that to be in decent shape before writing any Verilog design source code, makefiles, etc. LGPL will cover Verilog RTL and testbench code, makefiles for simulation, synthesis, whatever makes sense to have in there that is mine to stamp LGPL onto. (Some things may come from FPGA tool vendor such as Xilinx and Altera, I'm still learning how things work for that and how I need to treat such things, please offer advice if you've done that before)<br>
<br>Both portions of this project will live in a single svn repository, and thus I consider them to be a common single distribution. Does that affect things since they are not kept separate? Or is it more like including proprietary binaries on a Linux install CD, which I understand is allowable?<br>
<br>Does this make sense? Is it problematic? <br><br>Can documentation (OpenOffice files, output from timing diagram editors, state machine editors (diagrams, not source code output), and maybe some png screenshots, as well as text to describe registers, pins, protocols etc. be put under LGPL like the design itself, as it will be transformed by whatever verbage is correct to use in achieving a pdf file result from combining those things.<br>
<br>I'd like to not screw up my first open-source project, and I appreciate any thoughts people have to offer.<br><br>amigabill<br>