Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Update disassembler files from latest binutils

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Laurent Desnogues
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> GPLv3 is not acceptable for qemu, which contains v2 only code.
>>
>> We could update once to binutils 2.17 which is GPL v2+. For Sparc this
>> would be about OK, since there is just one commit after GPLv3 switch.
>> But for i386 this would mean missing 30 to 50 commits.
>
> I took a quick look at binutils CVS repository: 2.17 released happened
> in June '06.
>
> According to ChangeLog, the switch to GPLv3 occured in July '07:
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/opcodes/ChangeLog-2007?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
>
> So I *guess* getting source out of CVS from June '07 should be safe
> license wise, though probably slightly dangerous from a stability point
> of view.  Perhaps Paul can comment on that?

In case it matters, the ARM disassembler is exactly at the point I
mentionned: last commit before the switch to GPLv3.


Laurent