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by tardedmeme 24 days ago
> > You can just ignore the EULA. Nobody is coming to get you.

> You can, but it's not gonna gain broad attention.

True I guess nobody ever gave a shit about The Pirate Bay. That project died without gathering a single user.

> > Why is nobody using it?

> It's used for chips with a good open source backend (lattice, gatemate). But it's non-trivial to integrate with the vivado backend and doesn't bring many benefits when used as such.

Sounds like someone should reverse engineer the vivado backend so it's not needed any more.