README: clarify license

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@ -26,12 +26,35 @@ WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
Additional permissions under section 7 of the GNU General Public License
(GPL) are hereby granted. The purpose of this exception is to allow
non-GPL (including proprietary) logic cores to be used in conjunction
with code generated by Migen in a design.
"Generated" code refers to Verilog or VHDL code that has been obtained
by converting FHDL structures using Migen.
To "instantiate" is to include and connect another module as specified
in section 12.1.2 of the IEEE standard 1364-2001 or in section 9.6 of
the IEEE standard 1076-1993.
(1) You have permission to propagate a work of generated code that
instantiates modules that are not generated code and do not comply
with the GPL.
(2) You have permission to propagate a work of Verilog or VHDL code that
is not generated code, does not comply with the GPL and instantiates
generated code.
The availability of this exception does not imply any general
presumption that third-party software is unaffected by the copyleft
requirements of the license of Migen.
Unless otherwise noted, Migen's source code is copyright (C) 2011-2012
Sebastien Bourdeauducq. Other authors retain ownership of their
contributions. If a submission can reasonably be considered
independently copyrightable, it's yours and I encourage you to claim it
with appropriate copyright notices. This submission then falls under the
"otherwise noted" category. All submissions must use a license
compatible with the GPL.
compatible with the GPL and the exception above.
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