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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disass


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:51:13 +0000

On 6 February 2014 13:45, Michael Matz <address@hidden> 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.

thanks
-- PMM



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