Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] nios2: Add disas entries

[Marek Vasut]

On 06/13/2016 09:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/13/2016 01:05 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Add nios2 disassembler support. This patch is composed from binutils files
>> from commit "Opcodes and assembler support for Nios II R2". The files from
>> binutils used in this patch are:
>>
> 
>> +++ b/disas/nios2.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3620 @@
>> +/*
>> + * This file is a concatenation of the following files from binutils:
>> + *   include/opcode/nios2.h
>> + *   include/opcode/nios2r1.h
>> + *   include/opcode/nios2r2.h
>> + *   opcodes/nios2-opc.c
>> + *   opcodes/nios2-dis.c
>> + */
>> +
>> +/* Nios II opcode list for GAS, the GNU assembler.
>> +   Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +   Contributed by Nigel Gray (address@hidden).
>> +   Contributed by Mentor Graphics, Inc.
>> +
>> +   This file is part of GAS, the GNU Assembler, and GDB, the GNU 
>> disassembler.
>> +
>> +   GAS/GDB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> +   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> +   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
>> +   any later version.
> 
> This is a non-starter.  Qemu is a GPLv2-only project because of some of
> the files it has already borrowed from other places, so we CANNOT use
> GPLv3 files.  You'll have to implement this from scratch, or pull from
> binutils at the point prior to where upstream binutils upgraded to GPLv3.
> 
Ouch, I see. I hope Sandra (on CC) might have some idea how to best go
about this licensing thing. I briefly checked and the nios2 stuff landed
in binutils under gpl3 already.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut