Re: [Qemu-devel] CMSIS SVD based peripheral definitions

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 January 2017 at 16:51, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2017, at 18:16, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The obvious issue that comes to mind
>> is licensing, though -- what licenses are the SVD files under,
>> and would those be compatible with QEMU's GPLv2 ?
>
> that's a common question with cmsis files. I could not find
> any specific license applying to svd files, so, since these
> files are provided as part of the arm cmsis packs, I would
> consider the generic license, which, starting with the latest
> cmsis release, was changed to Apache.

The FSF's view is that Apache 2.0 is not compatible with GPLv2:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

thanks
-- PMM