Copy/pasting a comment from Arnd Bergmann, an experienced Linux kernel developer: The full extent of the MIPS Open program was announced yesterday, so I had a

Copy/pasting a comment from Arnd Bergmann, an experienced Linux kernel developer: The full extent of the MIPS Open program was announced yesterday, so I had a closer look. They finally stopped calling it "Open Source", and instead use the term "Open use" now, which basically seems to mean "royalty-free, as the license is not particularly open and appears to prohibit making copyleft CPU cores. Everything that was released for download on mipsopen.com now seems to have been available for a while without the click-through EULA. The components are all for different and partly incompatible revisions of the architecture: the ISA license is for MIPSr6, the MicroAptiv core is MIPSr3, and the GNU toolchain binaries they distribute target MIPSr2. I suppose their competitors have nothing to fear from this. https://wavecomp.ai/wave-computing-releases-first-mips-open-program-components-to-accelerate-innovation-for-next-generation-system-on-chip-designs/ https://wavecomp.ai/wave-computing-releases-first-mips-open-... https://mastodon.host/@arnd/101831404730802126 https://mastodon.host/@arnd/101831404730802126