"Fendt, Oliver" <oliver.fe...@siemens.com> writes: > I think there is a potential licensing problem in the file > binutils-2.29/gas/config/tc-alpha.c > > The license information in the beginning of the files says that this > file is licensed under GPL-3.0+ ; below this information the CMU > License is listed. This suggests that the file itself stays under > GPL-3.0 and CMU. > The CMU has among others wording that reads: > > Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to > > ??? Software Distribution Coordinator? or? software.distribut...@cs.cmu.edu > ??? School of Computer Science > ??? Carnegie Mellon University > ??? Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 > ? any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the > ?? rights to redistribute these changes.? */ > > so it is requested that all modifications are sent back to the > CMU. Such a requirement is not formulated in the GPL-3.0 and the > GPL-3.0 says in section
It's only a request, not a requirement. I don't see a problem here. I do kind of wonder what that text is doing on an Alpha source file. As far as I know Mach never ran on the Alpha. Our repository history don't go back far enough to show where it came from. I suppose we could ask Richard Henderson to see if he remembers. I also wonder how many people would notice if we just dropped Alpha support. They stopped selling Alpha machines ten years ago. Ian _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
