From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12231 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2009 07:33:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 12223 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Dec 2009 07:33:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:33:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9632BABA4 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:33:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id G0uMlnKSrJAg for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:33:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6612BAB66 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:33:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47D06F58CF; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:32:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:33:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: [RFC] what should we do about COPYING? Message-ID: <20091218073249.GC2788@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2009-12/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 Michael Snyder pointed out that gdb/COPYING contains the GPLv2, whereas GDB is now under GPLv3. I was simply going to replace the contents of COPYING with the GPLv3, except that I noticed an inconsistent resolution depending on the project. For instance: - In the root directory, we have COPYING (v2) and COPYING3 (v3); - In bfd, we have COPYING that contains the GPL v3. I personally do not see the point of keeping the GPL v2 around, and thus suggest that we replace the contents COPYING rather than adding an extra file named COPYING3. Note that we have a couple of extra copies in the sim directory as well. -- Joel