From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20686 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2007 02:39:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 20591 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2007 02:39:10 -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; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:08 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA42982CE; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from false.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CA2982C5; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:39:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: DJ Delorie Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Message-ID: <20070810023904.GA20519@them.org> Mail-Followup-To: DJ Delorie , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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/msg00197.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Eli Zaretskii 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