Am 11.01.2018 um 10:49 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > >> The source file would be pic16f1320.inc, which is part of gputils (which >> is packaged in Debian, the .inc file gets installed to >> /usr/share/gputils/header/pic16f1320.inc). > > Hmm, I'm not sure these files should be in Debian main, a lot of them > say "Copyright 1999-2014 Microchip Technology, All rights reserved" > without specifying any license.
However, the files are just lists of register names and locations. So if the files are not under copyright, I guess that copyright note could be ignored? >> For the future (i.e. post 3.7.0 release), SDCC plans to no longer ship >> the .h files for PIC in the tarball. Instead they would be generated at >> build-time from the .inc source files in the installed gputils. > > That sounds like a reasonable plan, except it runs into the above > problem. The current situation also runs into that problem though. > Well, SDCC came up with that plan for technical, not legal reasons. SDCC pic14 and pic16 backends have a build-dependency on gputils anyway, so not having the .h files in the SDCC tarball is no disadvantange to the user. Philipp
