Re: [patches] Re: Newlib/libgloss port for RISC-V

[Kito Cheng <kito dot cheng at gmail dot com>]

Hi Jeff:

Thanks for your review, we'll review and add the licensing
information for every file again and update the patch set.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Kito,
>
> Before I continue reviewing, I have noticed that you have no licensing
> information in any of your non-generated files.  You need to add this
> as Red Hat has
> the default license.  You can make it BSD-like or see other licenses
> in the repository that are even more permissive.  That said, you have
> another issue in that one of your files (asm.h) in the first patch has
> been taken from glibc and is LPGL.  This can cause problems unless you
> are building newlib as a dynamic library as code that links to your
> library becomes LGPL unless it provides everything required to relink.
>   See:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10130143/gpl-lgpl-and-static-linking
>
> My suggestion would be to create your own version of asm.h and any
> other files that are LGPL and license them how you see fit.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Jeff J.
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Kito Cheng <kito.cheng@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> We'd like to contribute for RISC-V[1] support to newlib/libgloss.
>> RISC-V is an open ISA which support both 32 and 64 bit.
>>
>> For the other part of GNU toolchain, GCC and binutils already included
>> in upstream in GCC 7 / binutils 2.28.
>>
>> We've also tested with newlib and gcc testsuite for following targets:
>>
>> riscv32-unknown-elf
>> riscv64-unknown-elf
>>
>> [PATCH 1/3] Add RISC-V port for newlib
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2017/msg00669.html
>> [PATCH 2/3] Add RISC-V port for libm
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2017/msg00670.html
>> [PATCH 3/3] Add RISC-V port for libgloss
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2017/msg00671.html
>>
>> Contributor list:
>>    - Andrew Waterman  <andrew@sifive.com>
>>    - Kito Cheng  <kito.cheng@gmail.com>
>>    - Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@dabbelt.com>
>>    - Scott Beamer  <sbeamer@eecs.berkeley.edu>
>>    - Michael Neilly  <mneilly@yahoo.com>
>>    - Alex Suykov  <alex.suykov@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://riscv.org/
>
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