Re: [oc] legality of cores?!

[Marko Mlinar <markom@opencores.org>]

Jeffrey Hanoch wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Jim, you ask a good question.  However, I don't believe it is illegal to use
> information freely available in order to reverse engineer a processor.  As
> long as no inside private information from ARM is used, it should be legal.
> AMD obviously makes a clone of the Intel processors and gets away with it.
> But it should be checked out as I am not a Lawyer (thank God).

AMD must pay some royalties to Intel and I think Intel does this
just because of that monopol law...

We solved all those legacy problems, by designing OR1k RISC.

regards,
	Marko