On January 15, 2016 6:50:51 PM GMT+01:00, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: >On Jan 15, 2016, at 2:37 AM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: >> HSA Foundation grants express permission to any current Founder, >Promoter, >> Supporter Contributor, Academic or Associate member of HSA Foundation >to >> copy and redistribute UNMODIFIED versions of this specification > >So, this isn’t the GNU way. We need to get permission from and they >need to grant us, or they need to sign an assignment or it needs to be >reimplemented. > >They need to ask themselves, if they want us to support their standard >or not. Getting permission might take a week to a month, but, it is >better to go that route. If they don’t want to grant us what we want, >then they are likely to want to sue users of our compiler, and in that >case, we are better not putting it in in the first place. > >My vote would be for the SC to nix this until the issue is resolved.
It's a non copyrightable set of magic numbers associated to identifiers (we could even change). Richard.
