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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:05:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64
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To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>, Patch Tracking <patches@linaro.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@linaro.org>, Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.de>, Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>, Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?B?QWxleCBCZW5uw6ll?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 6 February 2014 13:54, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> It is GPLv3 which is not compatible with GPLv2 which
>> QEMU requires. The contribution process for binutils
>> involves a copyright assignment which means the FSF
>> now have the copyright there, as I understand it.
>
> The FSF always grants back rights on the contribution to the contributor.
> ARM could simply double-license their original contribution of the
> disassembler.

I'm afraid that this is not, as I understand it,
feasible in this particular situation. Sorry.

thanks
-- PMM