[Vm-dev] Fwd: Squeak source code licence declaration for ARM fast bitblt

[David T. Lewis]

Ben,

Thank you very much!


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:53:00PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> This should make all licence aficionados happy - 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "Ben Avison" <bavison at riscosopen.org>
> > Subject: Squeak source code licence declaration
> > Date: 30 May, 2013 10:43:11 AM PDT
> > To: "tim Rowledge" <tim at rowledge.org>
> > Cc: "Eben Upton" <eben at raspberrypi.org>, "Steve Revill" <srevill at riscosopen.org>
> > 
> > Tim,
> > 
> > I hereby confirm that all the source code I have contributed to the Squeak
> > VM is my own work and is licensed under the MIT Licence, and I am happy for
> > the VM to use it under those terms.
> > 
> > One uncommon tool is required to build the source code: asasm. This is
> > licensed under GPL version 2. To build it from source, you can do the
> > following:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install bison flex libarchive-dev
> > svn co svn://svn.riscos.info/gccsdk/trunk/tools/asasm
> > # at this point, edit src/output.c to insert #define ELF_EABI
> > autoreconf --install
> > ./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf
> > make
> > DESTDIR=/usr/local/bin sudo make install
> > 
> > It might be worth us getting this set up as a package for Raspbian, and
> > maybe upstream it even further to ARM Debians in general? At the moment, the
> > CMake makefiles I've written assume asasm is available if you're targeting
> > ARM.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> 
> 
> tim
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