On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:12 PM Antonio Borneo <borneo.anto...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > What does the text in the file need to say to be acceptable to OpenOCD?
> I can see about getting it changed.
>
> It should report a license compatible with GPLv2.
> Either GPLv2, BSD in any flavor, MIT.
> O dual licensing, like "CC-BY-4.0 OR BSD-3-Clause"
>

I'm looking into that. Thanks for giving some examples that would work.

> This file comes from https://github.com/riscv/riscv-opcodes. The LICENSE
> in question looks a bit painful as well. I'll see about including the
> license directly in that header file as a string, so it's present in the
> source and could be displayed in a binary.
>
> The best option would be to have directly the standard SPDX tag in the
> first line, but it's also ok having just a line reporting under which
> license this file can be used.
>

That license doesn't seem to be exactly a BSD-3-Clause. I'm not a lawyer so
I don't want to say the two licenses are equivalent, which I think means we
have to distribute the license verbatim.

Tim


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