Re: [coreboot] xmmstack

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 03.04.2009 13:22, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:27:07PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > /*
> >     XMM-STACK: convert the stack to a XMM registers for gcc x86 assembler codes
> >     Copyright (C) 2008  Urbez Santana i Roma
> > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> > (at your option) any later version.
>
> Ouch, GPLv3-or-later. Can you please ask him if he likes to relicense it to
> GPLv2-or-later as we can't use it otherwise (at most for inspiration,
> but not the code itself). Yes, GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, which
> sucks.

AFAICS xmmstack is an external tool like gcc. We don't care about the
license of gcc because gcc is not incorporated into the final binary.
Why would xmmstack be different?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel