Fully agree.




On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Olof Kindgren <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Stefan Kristiansson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On 05/14/2014 12:16 AM, Peter Gavin wrote:
> >>> Does anyone have any objections or other input?
> >>
> >> I agree with consolidating and renaming. I suggest changing the license
> >> to something more permissive than GPL, too: most embedded software
> >> written for OR1K has to use that file.
> >>
> >
> > I second that, having a more permissive license on that file would
> > make a lot more sense.
> > You need that or a similar file in basically any software project
> > using OR1K, so all a too restrictive license do is prevent people from
> > using openrisc.
> > Unfortunately, that file has been composed by a large number of people
> > over the year, so I don't think we can change the license of _that_
> > file without their permission.
> > Tracking people down just to get a non-gpl license on that file seems
> > like a lot of trouble though.
> > That's why I suggested on IRC to make a "cleanroom" version of it by
> > generating a new file from e.g.
> > https://github.com/openrisc/mor1kx/blob/master/rtl/verilog/mor1kx-sprs.v
> >
> > Stefan
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> Yes! I love this. Have had the same idea about a or1k-headers package
> that everything else can depend on.
>
> FYI we have two open bugs about this as well, so please put some info
> there when things are starting to move
> http://bugzilla.opencores.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58
> http://bugzilla.opencores.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59
>
> Also agree on using a BSD-style licensing for this file, and renaming
> it to or1k-spr-defs.h or whatever
>
> Do we have more files that could go in the header package?
>
> //Olof
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