From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070810023904.GA20519@them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xnmyx0mhff.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?
>
> IANAL, but IMHO...
>
> The old license allows us to *distribute* under newer terms.
>
> It does not allow us to actually change the license.
>
> I think this means that if we distribute a GPL2+ program to someone
> under the terms of GPL3, the program itself is still under the terms
> of GPL2+.
I'm not sure if this is right or not, but it certainly makes me
uncomfortable to go flipping other people's license terms.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 18:08 Joel Brobecker
2007-08-08 18:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-08 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 19:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-09 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-09 22:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 11:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-09 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 23:12 ` DJ Delorie
2007-08-10 2:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-08-10 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10 15:47 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-10 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10 18:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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