From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17076 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2007 18:01:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16256 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2007 18:01:04 -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 18:00:54 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDBB982CF; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500F5982CE; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJYn4-0002pz-Uc; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:00:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Joel Brobecker , dj@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Message-ID: <20070810180050.GA10742@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Joel Brobecker , dj@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20070810155027.GA24363@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/msg00214.txt.bz2 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 > > Cc: DJ Delorie , 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