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On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > Overall this source file is clearly a modified copy of an ancient version 
> > of the opcode table included with the opcodes library from binutils and I 
> > think it would benefit from a refresh.
> 
> You can't do that because of GPL v3, sadly.

 I've been aware of that, however the changes I mentioned are pretty 
mechanical and can be easily made from scratch by someone them who hasn't 
looked at binutils, even based on the description I already made.  You 
don't copyright an idea, only actual written code.

  Maciej