On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 02:39:47PM -0500, Bill Schmidt wrote: > On 10/5/21 12:43 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > The last release (version 1.9) was in 2004. If there is interest in > > making updates to it that coulde be done of course, it is GFDL, there is > > no red tape getting in the way. > > > > Maybe this could be maintained in the same repository even? > > Well, I'm not sure it's quite this easy; when developing ELFv2, there was > enough > doubt about the provenance/ownership of ELFv1 that we weren't comfortable > borrowing > language from it. That may have been an excess of caution, or it may not...
I am not suggesting you should share this text with some other ABI. Just that you can put it in the same repository :-) > That said, with enough diligence I would hope we would be able to create > modifications to the ELFv1 document, but we might incur some paperwork. It is GFDL version 1.1 . The hardest part should be to find that older licence version :-P (<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.en.html> fwiw) (But I understand your situation, heh. Let the lawyers worry about it? That is their job :-) ) Segher
