# Questions
-you applied to the 2022-08 open call from NLnet. We have some questions regarding your project proposal Libre-SOC OpenPOWER ISA WG, but obviously we are incurring some delays due to the deluge of payment requests ;)
+you applied to the 2022-08 open call from NLnet. We have some questions regarding your project proposal Libre-SOC OpenPOWER ISA WG
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You requested a neat round sum of 100000 euro.
it. I (personally) used to be ok when working out of Taiwan for 3 years
on EUR 1200-1500, and Jacob was in student-subsidised accommodation.
-bottom line: 3 people, at EUR 3,000, is actually only 11 months duration.
+bottom line: 3 people, at EUR 3,000 (which is **1/5th** of the commercial
+rate for quality work of this type), is actually only 11 months duration.
if we include binutils part-time as 0.25 people it's only 10 months.
these are the tasks:
* Example algorithms: strncpy, quicksort, insertionsort, UTF-8
validation and conversion to UTF-16; more Audio/Video examples - all of
these are critically important showcases. Each example chosen
- can average around 1-2 weeks work.
+ can average around 1-2 weeks work. They all help with the
+ critical "justification" which is already underway as part of
+ https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/rfc/ls001/ which already has
+ some of the examples from unit tests.
* Developing and improving the Simulator itself, to confirm correct
functionality: again, several months (this is always ongoing)
* The Test API: this will be a simpler self-contained task to make
work :) i appreciate it does mean not needing a special EU Auditor,
and also an opportunity to review, half-way through.
+**
What would work on the legal compliance for the development look
like? Who would be doing that?
+**
-IBM - or more to the point the OPF ISA WG - requesting that all
-contributors sign an "Inbound Patent License Agreement". in our
+The OpenPOWER Foundation - probably using IBM or LinuxFoundation
+Legal Counsel - requesting that all contributors sign an
+"Inbound Patent License Agreement". in our
case there *aren't* any patents, but we still have to sign an
agreement that there aren't any, and, also, that if we *do* create
any patents that those will be assigned to the OPF immediately.
+There is also a Copyright Assignment requirement (which IBM also had
+to agree to, now that the Power ISA is owned by the OpenPOWER Foundation)
Perhaps a budget for some legal assistance in reviewing that agreement
might be a good idea? NLnet has funded this work under its
"Works for the Public Good" mandate: we don't want to be caught out
* https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/rfc/
-Example of the cross-referencing so far:
+Example of the cross-referencing and history so far:
* https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/rfc/ls001/
* https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=libreriscv.git;a=history;f=openpower/sv/rfc/ls001.mdwn