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Re: [hsa merge 08/10] HSAIL BRIG description header file
- From: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- To: 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 09:50:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: [hsa merge 08/10] HSAIL BRIG description header file
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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 isn’t 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 don’t 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.