On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM Tim Newsome <t...@sifive.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:46 PM Antonio Borneo <borneo.anto...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 9:48 PM Tim Newsome <t...@sifive.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:09 PM Antonio Borneo < >> borneo.anto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Definitively odd! The top part matches the initial part of >> >> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-Clear.html >> >> then the rest matches the last part of >> >> https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-Modern-Variant.html >> > >> > >> > Oh, nice find. >> > >> >> >> >> An hybrid! Don't know how to consider it >> >> Do you have the possibility to ask the original authors? >> > >> > >> > I could ask Andrew who made the change in github, but probably all that >> gets us is where he cut and pasted it from. Since the copyright is assigned >> to The Regents of the University of California presumably only they can >> change the license, which sounds like a big bureaucracy at best. Seems >> easier just to include the license in the OpenOCD source and binary. I've >> opened a PR at https://github.com/riscv/riscv-opcodes/pull/131 to help >> with that. >> >> AAAn investigation on where it comes from could still be useful. >> Hopefully it's just a wrong copy-paste that can be amended. >> > > Looks like we'll be able to switch it to BSD-3-Clause-Clear. > https://github.com/riscv/riscv-opcodes/pull/133 > > More complex instead with CC-BY-4.0 on the other file. I hope we can >> get a solution before mid September to properly tag OpenOCD 0.12.0-rc1 >> > > Yes. I've been emailing with Stephano Cetola of the RISC-V Foundation > about this. He's digging into what it would take to use a GPLv2 compatible > license. > > Tim > Hi Tim, recently there has been some message exchange on the old gerrit https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/5821 about trying to push some more RISC-V code in the upstream OpenOCD, and I suddenly recalled this thread. Have you got any update about moving the license of https://github.com/riscv/riscv-debug-spec/ from CC-BY-4.0 to a GPLv2 compatible? Best Regards, Antonio
