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Re: [hsa merge 08/10] HSAIL BRIG description header file
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>,Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>,GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>,Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:23:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [hsa merge 08/10] HSAIL BRIG description header file
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On January 15, 2016 6:50:51 PM GMT+01:00, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Jan 15, 2016, at 2:37 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>> HSA Foundation grants express permission to any current Founder,
>Promoter,
>> Supporter Contributor, Academic or Associate member of HSA Foundation
>to
>> copy and redistribute UNMODIFIED versions of this specification
>
>So, this isnât the GNU way. We need to get permission from and they
>need to grant us, or they need to sign an assignment or it needs to be
>reimplemented.
>
>They need to ask themselves, if they want us to support their standard
>or not. Getting permission might take a week to a month, but, it is
>better to go that route. If they donât want to grant us what we want,
>then they are likely to want to sue users of our compiler, and in that
>case, we are better not putting it in in the first place.
>
>My vote would be for the SC to nix this until the issue is resolved.
It's a non copyrightable set of magic numbers associated to identifiers (we could even change).
Richard.