From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13076 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2007 19:28:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 12967 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2007 19:28:14 -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 19:28:05 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA069982C5; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:28:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD0B982A4; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:28:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IIrCN-0004Sf-5U; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:28:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:28:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Message-ID: <20070808192803.GA17053@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , 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: 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/msg00158.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:48:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:11:56 -0700 > > From: Joel Brobecker > > > > 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. > > Why COPYING3? why not just COPYING? One reason is that there are some files which refer to COPYING whose license text we can not change. For instance, parts of sim are copyright Andrew Cagney rather than the FSF - and I believe other simulators are copyright various corporations. They're all "version 2 or later", so it is not a problem, but we do not have authority to change the license statements in them. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery