[PATCH 4/6] RISC-V opcodes

Palmer Dabbelt palmer@dabbelt.com
Wed Oct 19 17:13:00 GMT 2016


On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 06:36:19 PDT (-0700), joseph@codesourcery.com wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
>> > If this file is generated by a tool, then that tool (and input files it
>> > requires) should be part of the submission too.  Either that, or else
>> > these generated files should be changed to be considered to be the
>> > originals, and no generator mentioned or needed.
>>
>> It's autogenerated by riscv-opcodes
>>
>>   https://github.com/riscv/riscv-opcodes
>
> The GPL requires that binutils includes the source code - the preferred
> form of the code for making changes to it.  Thus, if the preferred form of
> the code for making changes to that file is in riscv-opcodes, the relevant
> riscv-opcodes code must be included in the binutils sources.  This is just
> like various CGEN input files are included in the binutils sources (and
> some past release tarballs had to be recreated a while back when it was
> found they were missing some such input files and so not legally
> distributable).

OK, sorry -- I guess I'm never really sure about how licenses work.  Andrew and
I will either write a new riscv-opc.h by hand (probably based on the ARMv8 one,
as that looks like the newest and cleanest) or clean up and commit the scripts
to generate the header.



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