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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/38] target/mips: Limited support for the R


From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/38] target/mips: Limited support for the R5900
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:12:19 +0100 (BST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01)

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > Overall this source file is clearly a modified copy of an ancient version 
> > of the opcode table included with the opcodes library from binutils and I 
> > think it would benefit from a refresh.
> 
> You can't do that because of GPL v3, sadly.

 I've been aware of that, however the changes I mentioned are pretty 
mechanical and can be easily made from scratch by someone them who hasn't 
looked at binutils, even based on the description I already made.  You 
don't copyright an idea, only actual written code.

  Maciej



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