This will be an odd request but...
I am part of a retro homebrew community focusing on an over 30 year old ARMv3 based system. The custom compiler suite used for the system came from (or on behalf of) ARM and was for classic M68K MacOS based on Codemist's Norcroft compiler suites (but was otherwise available as ARM SDT.) This suite was at some point licensed to a company focusing on RISCOS development. In searching for options for my community to do homebrew I reached out to said RISCOS folks and learned that ARM had sold (presumably) them a license to the source of the Norcroft compiler suite but the license did not allow release of the source nor sublicensing. I've also reached out to the original partners in Codemist who have said that they are willing to release the code if ARM were to allow it (Codemist sold ARM exclusive rights) and that some folks they spoke with at ARM in the past few years were happy to allow that to happen but that some management or legal individual had to sign off on it and things stalled.
So my "ask" here is: Does anyone have any contact in ARM that I could follow up with about all this?
I realize this is a long shot and ARM likely has little to gain from helping a small homebrew community of 30+ year old hardware but I wanted to make the attempt given all parties appear to be willing and it would be a shame for the technology to be lost to time. Codemist has the source but is technically no longer in business and ARM has exclusive rights anyway so they can not legally release it to anyone.
Unfortunately, I don't know who the RISCOS folks spoke with or how they went about acquiring the license. While open sourcing the suite would be nice I'm also not opposed to a similar licensing agreement to the RISCOS situation.
As to the inevitable questions about alternatives... the platform leverages an ARMv3 ARM60 CPU which is not supported by any modern compiler that I'm aware of and leverages AOF and relocatable AIF executable formats which were long abandoned in the limited OSS support they had. While new targets could be created for existing compilers/linkers, I've enough on my plate at the moment and I still think it would be valuable to see Codemist's / ARM's old technology released for posterity.
I've reached out to ARM and ARMSoftwareDev on X. I did receive a DM from ARM just yesterday but I've yet to hear back after a similar explanation to above. I've also tried ARM's Discord but it is pretty quiet there and I've not received a response. This appeared like the only other place to reach out and I wanted to cast a wide net.
Thank you in advance,
Cheers