On 9 January 2017 at 16:51, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote: >> On 9 Jan 2017, at 18:16, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >> The obvious issue that comes to mind >> is licensing, though -- what licenses are the SVD files under, >> and would those be compatible with QEMU's GPLv2 ? > > that's a common question with cmsis files. I could not find > any specific license applying to svd files, so, since these > files are provided as part of the arm cmsis packs, I would > consider the generic license, which, starting with the latest > cmsis release, was changed to Apache.
The FSF's view is that Apache 2.0 is not compatible with GPLv2: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2 thanks -- PMM
