From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMVZp-0008DX-W5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:47:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMVZm-0004gi-QT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:47:37 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-f171.google.com ([209.85.217.171]:49703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMVZm-0004gb-JQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:47:34 -0500 Received: by mail-lb0-f171.google.com with SMTP id b6so19097045lbj.2 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:47:33 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54DEC303.6030502@ezchip.com> 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> From: Peter Maydell Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 05:47:13 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Chris Metcalf Cc: "walt@tilera.com" , Riku Voipio , Chen Gang S , qemu-devel , "rth@twiddle.net" 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 :-) -- PMM