Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Update disassembler files from latest binutils

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> GPLv3 is not acceptable for qemu, which contains v2 only code.
>
> We could update once to binutils 2.17 which is GPL v2+. For Sparc this
> would be about OK, since there is just one commit after GPLv3 switch.
> But for i386 this would mean missing 30 to 50 commits.

I took a quick look at binutils CVS repository: 2.17 released happened
in June '06.

According to ChangeLog, the switch to GPLv3 occured in July '07:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/opcodes/ChangeLog-2007?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

So I *guess* getting source out of CVS from June '07 should be safe
license wise, though probably slightly dangerous from a stability point
of view.  Perhaps Paul can comment on that?


Laurent