Re: avr-libc does not have support for ATxmega16a4u or ATxmega32a4u

Erik Walthinsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/16/2014 12:48 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>> As far as avr-libc is concerned, that's not necessary, since it's BSD-style
>> licensed.

> No, but for gcc and binutils getting the patches upstream does require 
> FSF paperwork.

I think adding a new device should count as a trivial change that
doesn't require a copyright assignment.  In GCC, it's basically a
one-line change (albeit it is followed by more changes, but they are
for automatically generated files, so they should not require a
copyright assignment either).

> However, I have no idea how much it would take to actually get the 
> maintainers to accept the changes.

The problem is there's not so much active developers for AVR-GCC at all.
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