On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 06:39:33PM +0100, Martin Jambor wrote:
> the following patch adds a BRIG (binary representation of HSAIL)
> representation description. It is within a single header file
> describing the binary structures and constants of the format.
>
> The file comes from the HSA Foundation (I have only added the
> HSA_BRIG_FORMAT_H macro and check and removed some weird comments
> which are not present in proposed future versions of the file) and is
> licensed under "University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License."
>
> The license is "GPL-compatible" according to FSF
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses)
> so I believe we can have it in GCC. Nevertheless, it is not GPL and
> there is no copyright assignment for it, but the situation is
> hopefully analogous to some other libraries that have their upstream
> elsewhere but we ship them as part of the GCC.
>
> In the previous posting of this patch
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-12/msg00721.html) I have
> requested a permission from the steering committee to include this file
> with a different upstream in GCC. I have not received an official
> reply but since I have been chosen to be the HSA maintainer, I tend to
> think there were no legal objections against HSA going forward,
> including this file.
I just wonder if this wouldn't be better located in include/ subdirectory,
it is something external to GCC.
CCing Ian on this.
> 2015-12-04 Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz>
>
> * hsa-brig-format.h: New file.
Jakub
