From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2282 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2012 11:25:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 2254 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Dec 2012 11:25:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO 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; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:25:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87182E294; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:25:37 -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 8g5rhpXjd28V; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:25:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CCC72E091; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:25:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 504CAC14CE; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:25:25 +0400 (RET) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:25:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Update some sim copyright headers to GPLv3-or-later Message-ID: <20121219112525.GV3273@adacore.com> References: <20121219072641.GQ3273@adacore.com> <201212190850.qBJ8oiUb030909@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20121219090457.GT3273@adacore.com> <201212191118.qBJBIlUN027746@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201212191118.qBJBIlUN027746@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 2012-12/txt/msg00694.txt.bz2 > IANAL either, but only the copyright holder can change the license. > And to me changing the coyright headers as proposed does effectively > change the license, since "GPL v3 or later" is more restrictive than > "GPL v2 or later". Legal issues aside, I'd consider it impolite, even > dishonest, to change the license on somebody else's code without their > permission[1]. I will ask the FSF for official confirmation. -- Joel