Re: SPARC Leon baremetal layer

[Konrad Eisele <konrad at gaisler dot com>]

> 
> Therefore my advice would be you to choose a liberal licence (E.g. 2-clause BSD) instead, which would be legally less controversial.
> 
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 

I have updated the patch, this time it is a  BSD style license as appended below.

Here is is (i cannot sent it because it is 500k:
ftp://gaisler.com/gaisler.com/linux/patches/0003-sparc-leon-libleonbare-baremetal-layer.patch

Does this mean I can skip the FSF assignment? They didnt
reply up till now.
It seems that everybody has an different opinion on this matter.

The code I am submitting is a boilerplate simple code, no
rocket science. There must be a concept of proportionality in
law too, kind of "if the file contains "int my_global_var;" only
you don't need a copyright statement.


-- Konrad

ps. The "THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT COPYRIGHTED" statement is already present in existing
libgloss/sparc/sparc-stub.c  (it seems it is from Hewlett Packard).



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