Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly

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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 6 February 2014 13:45, Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hmm, why aren't we simply using the binutils disassembler?  It's also
> > (C) by ARM, so there shouldn't be any relicensing problems.  And it
> > does support AdvSIMD and system instructions.
> 
> It is GPLv3 which is not compatible with GPLv2 which
> QEMU requires. The contribution process for binutils
> involves a copyright assignment which means the FSF
> now have the copyright there, as I understand it.

The FSF always grants back rights on the contribution to the contributor.  
ARM could simply double-license their original contribution of the 
disassembler.


Ciao,
Michael.
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