Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:45:04PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:50:27 -0700
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > I would certainly talk with the GCC guys to try to understand why
> > they did it differently (they kept COPYING as is, and added COPYING3).
> 
> Actually, I think we should talk to the FSF lawyers.

Who is going to take care of this?  It's the last blocker for the GDB
6.7 release branch (and release), but we don't all need to pester the
FSF at once.

Though, to be honest, I don't see the problem.  Here is a solution
that involves adding no new files and not mentioning COPYING by name:

- Binutils already includes both COPYING (still v2) and COPYING3.
These files are in the top level of the src repository and thus
already part of GDB releases.

- The suggested wording for the GPL v3 notice in every source file
does not mention "COPYING".  It says that the GPL v3 was included.
If it's the FSF's suggested wording, I think we can use it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery