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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disass
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Michael Matz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly |
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Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:54:45 +0100 (CET) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
Hi,
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 February 2014 13:45, Michael Matz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hmm, why aren't we simply using the binutils disassembler? It's also
> > (C) by ARM, so there shouldn't be any relicensing problems. And it
> > does support AdvSIMD and system instructions.
>
> 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.
Ciao,
Michael.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] disas/libvixl: Fix upstream libvixl compilation issues, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/5] rules.mak: Support .cc as a C++ source file suffix, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/5] rules.mak: Link with C++ if we have a C++ compiler, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/5] disas: Implement disassembly output for A64, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/5] disas: Add subset of libvixl sources for A64 disassembler, Peter Maydell, 2014/02/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly, Michael Matz, 2014/02/06