From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18015 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2007 03:27:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 18007 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Aug 2007 03:27:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:27:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76432AA3DD; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id DN93-FtKnmGr; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEC72AA3CE; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C6C0DE7B54; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:27:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Message-ID: <20070809033056.GC3738@adacore.com> References: <20070808181156.GA20477@adacore.com> <20070808192803.GA17053@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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/msg00174.txt.bz2 > > > 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. > > Sorry, I still don't get it: if those files refer to COPYING and are > "version 2 or later", then it sounds like having GPL v3 in a file > named "COPYING" is actually TRT to do, isn't it? The files don't refer to COPYING, they refer to the GPL license v3 or later. -- Joel