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

[tim Rowledge]

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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