[sreevisakh]

A developer of Symbiflow toolchain once described Lattice Semi as very friendly and cooperative towards them [1]. I was wondering why they suddenly changed their attitude. It may have been a clause that they introduced without giving much thought. Happy to see that at least one vendor has the right idea about tooling.

[1] https://youtu.be/0se7kNes3EU?t=1367

[inamberclad]

Hackaday comments were hypothesizing that they outsource tool development to some other company.

[Tomte]

Why would they change an EULA clause for that?

[corty]

To signal potential open source contributors that there is no danger of being sued for their work. Too many vendors have used the fact or even just the accusation of reverse-engineering or other non-EULA-compliant behaviour to suppress OSS.

[Tomte]

That's a valid reason. But not what I asked.

I don't see a connection to "outsource tool development to some other company".

If I commission some work from another company, this company doesn't receive, modify or extend my software under the standard EULA. They do so under our contract.

[inamberclad]

The idea was that some outside company had a say in what went into the EULA.