From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMevG-0001Cd-Va for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:46:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMevA-0006Zm-8V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:46:22 -0500 Received: from out11.biz.mail.alibaba.com ([205.204.114.131]:60007) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMev9-0006Yo-VF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:46:16 -0500 Message-ID: <54DF6F90.60406@sunrus.com.cn> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 23:53:52 +0800 From: Chen Gang S MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <54DD17BC.5040006@sunrus.com.cn> <54DD180B.3080004@sunrus.com.cn> <54DE8DCA.6030302@sunrus.com.cn> <54DEBC3E.4000805@sunrus.com.cn> <54DEC303.6030502@ezchip.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] target-tile: Firstly add to qemu with minimized features List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell , Chris Metcalf Cc: "walt@tilera.com" , Riku Voipio , qemu-devel , "rth@twiddle.net" On 2/14/15 13:47, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 14 February 2015 at 03:37, Chris Metcalf wrote: >> I'm not sure whether Tilera can simply re-release the tilegx-specific stuff >> from binutils as a separate tarball with GPL v2 licensing. Hopefully we can >> avoid having to figure that out. :-) > > I believe it is theoretically possible (the usual FSF copyright arrangements > involve the original authors giving the copyright to the FSF but being > granted back a right to distribute their work under other licenses). > However it is definitely a "check with your lawyers" kind of question > and I entirely appreciate the desire to avoid having to go down that > route :-) > For me, the main feature of kernel disassembly implementation is almost the same as the feature of binutils disassembly implementation. And all of related code are not quite much (only several thousand lines), So at present, I guess, we needn't consider more about the related license. Thanks -- Chen Gang Open, share, and attitude like air, water, and life which God blessed