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 > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenRISC mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > OpenRISC mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc > -- Jose T. de Sousa, PhD Office: +351 213 100 213 R. Alves Redol 9 1000-029 Lisboa Portugal
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