backport patches for gmp-4.x.x
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Subject: Re: backport patches for gmp-4.x.x
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 05:15:11 +0200
From: Torbjörn Granlund <[email protected]>
To: Rongqing Li <[email protected]>
CC: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer" <[email protected]>
Rongqing Li <[email protected]> writes:
Torbjorn Granlund:
we am using the gmp-4.2.1, but compiling gmp failed on mips64 and 64bit userspace, I see the patch 12418[(mips, powerpc):
Provide assembly-free umul_ppmm for newer gcc] can fix it. but it is under GPLv3;
Could you release this patch under GPLv2?
No.
Use GMP 6.0.0 or later of you dual-licensing is important.
Torbjörn
Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622
Quoted 1 line · Rongqing Li
Use GMP 6.0.0 or later of you dual-licensing is important.
OK so you have a way forward now.
Quoted 6 lines · Khem Raj
Quoted 1 line · Rongqing Li
Use GMP 6.0.0 or later of you dual-licensing is important.
OK so you have a way forward now.
I like to uprev it to 6.0.0, which is using the dual licensing, and its README says these two license are OR relation.
Copyright 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU MP Library.
The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
* the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
or
* the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
or both in parallel, as here.
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Best Reagrds, Roy | RongQing Li
Quoted 6 lines · Rongqing Li
Quoted 3 lines · Khem Raj
Quoted 1 line · Rongqing Li
Use GMP 6.0.0 or later of you dual-licensing is important.
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OK so you have a way forward now.
I like to uprev it to 6.0.0, which is using the dual licensing, and its README says these two license are OR relation.
Thats OK. Make sure that GPLv2 set works ok with 6.x