[RFA/commit] Moving to GPLv3 ... (part 0/???)

[RFA/commit] Moving to GPLv3 ... (part 0/???)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello,

I finally took the time to start changing the headers in our source
files to use GPL version 3 instead of version 2. I did this for files
that are under FSF copyright only.

Rather than submitting a gigantic patch that changes all the files,
I decided to use a more piecemeal approach. Each batch will take care
of .c files, then .h, then .ad[sb], then .exp, etc.

99.9% of the conversion has been performed automatically, with some
rare formatting adjustments made manually. It looks all good to me,
but I would very much appreciate if you could scan the patches I am
about to send. There are so many files changed that it's easy to miss.

All these patches have been tested on native x86-linux by rebuilding
GDB from scratch, and then running the testsuite.

I'll be traveling all of next week, but I would still like to have
these checked in by then. I should be able to find some time for
the commits.

Let me know if I missed any file!

BTW: In the process of doing this change, I noticed that a lot of
files do not contain the copyright blurb. Perhaps we should think
about fixing this in the near/medium future - I will post the
associated list of files.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel

Re: [RFA/commit] Moving to GPLv3 ... (part 0/???)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 06:39:15PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I'll be traveling all of next week, but I would still like to have
> these checked in by then. I should be able to find some time for
> the commits.
> 
> Let me know if I missed any file!

I've looked at all the patches that Michael hadn't already, somewhat
briefly.  They all look fine to commit as far as I'm concerned; I
think you should go ahead.  The diff for the .exp files was corrupted
in transit but I'm sure you did it right :-)

I don't know if there are any additional files in sim which we should
be updating but I suspect there are.  Anyway, this gets us 99% of the
way there.

Does the documentation need an update?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Re: [RFA/commit] Moving to GPLv3 ... (part 0/???)

[Joel Brobecker]

Thanks to Michael and Daniel for quickly review the patches.

> I don't know if there are any additional files in sim which we should
> be updating but I suspect there are.  Anyway, this gets us 99% of the
> way there.

I'll double-check the sim/ subdirectory, but I think we'll be in good
enough shape for the gdb-6.7 release. I still need to take care of
the "info copying/warranty" patch too.

> Does the documentation need an update?

Not as far as I can tell. The documentation is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License.

-- 
Joel