On 8/24/2014 4:42 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 24.08.2014 11:21, schrieb Michael Tokarev: >> Applied to -trivial, thank you! >> >> But I've a small concern - should we really do this on "external" sources, >> and divirge from upstream needlessly? >> >> Thanks, >> >> /mjt > > In general, I agree. In this case, the code was part of gcc, and newer > versions of gcc use GPL 3 which is incompatible with QEMU, so I assume that > the code in QEMU is no longer available from a maintained upstream. > > Stefan > > >
Yes. We had to effectively fork a copy the code to deal with the license issues. FWIW ... Alex has suggested a reformat of the libdecnumber code to make it compatible with QEMU formatting (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2014-05/msg00085.html). This is on my todo list. Obviously, such a reformat would make it even harder to synchronize with upstream gcc.
