[libre-riscv-dev] PowerISA, NLNet grants

[Immanuel, Yehowshua U]

> Forking is frowned upon by the Foundation but can they really
> prevent/forbid/avoid it ? They manage the ISA but they say it's "open”.

Yes. I am in Academia an can testify to the fact that “open” in academia is not quite the same as “open” in
free software at large.


> Let's take the "Open Source" stand of the RVF at their word ;-)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXdbm9lc3A seems "inviting"
> so let's see... The trick would be to say it's "RISC-V
> derived/compatible"

I am all for that!

And in addition, a RISCV derived processor would still run Linux software for RISCV just fine!!