From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15905 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2007 18:17:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 15860 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2007 18:17:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:17:36 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AE0982C5; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:17:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49B8982A4; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:17:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IIq69-0003Qu-J3; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:17:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:17:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Message-ID: <20070808181733.GA13118@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20070808181156.GA20477@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070808181156.GA20477@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:11:56AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hello, > > I think the first step into moving to GPL v3 is to add a file named > COPYING3 that contains a copy of the GPL v3 licensing terms. I looked > at the GCC sources, and this is what they did. The GPL v2 license was > still kept in COPYING. > > 2007-08-08 Joel Brobecker > > * COPYING3: New file. > > OK to apply? Can we just use the copy from the top level of src? I just noticed it hasn't been added to snapshots/releases yet; I will take care of that. > The next steps are bulk updates of the headers in the source files. > I propose the following header, which is a modified version of the > current ones, and slightly modeled on the GCC ones as well (for the > later part that talks about how to obtain the license terms). > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see > . > > Would that be an acceptable header? The recommended text from the GPL itself is: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . I think we should stick with that (note that you said "version 2" in your copy :-) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery