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 Fibonacci code example from VHDL article uncredited in publication 

Hi,

FWIW, I just sent an email to library(at)dl.ac.uk with a subject of 
""Uncredited code example from Wikipedia in one of your publications"".

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just (2006-12-01T14:10) downloaded the document 
   http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/publications/FPGA_overview.pdf
with a title of


An overview of FPGAs and FPGA programming; Initial experiences at
Daresbury 

November 2006 Version 2.0 

Richard Wain, Ian Bush, Martyn Guest, Miles Deegan, Igor Kozin and
Christine Kitchen 

Computational Science and Engineering Department, CCLRC Daresbury
Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, UK


ID numbers in that file are ISSN 1362-0207 and DL-TR-2006-007.

The ""Fibonacci series example in VHDL:"" in section 3.1 on page 7 is
near identical to the code example on VHDL in the English Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL#Fibonacci_series), which was first
written by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rcingham in 12 July 2002
as version
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VHDL&oldid;=115145.

The only change to the code in your document seems to be exchanging
the VHDL architecture name from ""Rcingham"" to ""Fib"".

The document in question does *not* acknowledge the author of that
code example, as required by the GNU Free Documentation License
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License)

A quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights:

   ""The license Wikipedia uses grants free access to our content in the
   same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is
   known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied,
   modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the
   same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the
   Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies
   our author credit requirement).""

Please update the document in order to comply with the requirements
of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Sincerely,
  Colin Marquardt"