Subject: Re: 64bit FP emulation
To: Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 11/18/2002 06:25:27
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:02:26AM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

 > If "you" = Nigel, that's not so... It's true only where "you" == MIPS
 > Technologies, a company with lots of lawyers on the staff who will
 > need to worry their way through any new license.  

Err, I meant "you" = "whoever is the owner of the IP" :-)

Honestly, I think the MTI lawyers will worry a lot less about a
stock'ish BSD license than the GPL :-)

 > If you have a policy of keeping the NetBSD kernel GPL-free, I can
 > kick-off that process.  But if you can use it under GPL rules, you'll
 > save me a lot of effort.

Correct, there is a policy of "no GPL in the kernel".

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>