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SoftFloat License #77

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carmiker opened this issue Feb 7, 2021 · 3 comments
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SoftFloat License #77

carmiker opened this issue Feb 7, 2021 · 3 comments

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@carmiker
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carmiker commented Feb 7, 2021

I have decided to incorporate Musashi into one of my projects. The main codebase seems to be MIT, but the SoftFloat licensing seems to be some custom license that is effectively a BSD or MIT style license, but with some terms that are slightly awkward:
https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi/blob/master/softfloat/README.txt#L58

Have these terms ever posed problems for Linux/BSD distributions that distribute software containing Musashi?

Is it feasible/desirable to update SoftFloat to a newer release, which has the 3 Clause BSD license rather than the custom one?
http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html

Further research suggests this version of SoftFloat is not compatible with the GPL (not an issue for me but perhaps for others):
https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/SoftFloatRelicensing

This is the where it was added it to the codebase:
#53

@joshgoebel
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Ping. Anyone out there on this issue?

@orbea
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orbea commented Dec 13, 2021

@kstenerud Any thoughts?

@kstenerud
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Sorry been a bit preoccupied of late. Yes absolutely I'm totally on board with updating this to a better license. I just haven't had much free time... If anyone wants to spearhead this they have my full support to get it incorporated into the main codebase!

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