From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13184 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2012 04:34:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 12151 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2012 04:34:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:34:22 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BAC33D977; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:34:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: Update some sim copyright headers to GPLv3-or-later Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.7.1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20121219072641.GQ3273@adacore.com> <201212191353.49689.vapier@gentoo.org> <20121220035750.GC6130@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20121220035750.GC6130@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1873910.YcaMkgXVs0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201212192334.22589.vapier@gentoo.org> 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: 2012-12/txt/msg00730.txt.bz2 --nextPart1873910.YcaMkgXVs0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1525 On Wednesday 19 December 2012 22:57:50 Joel Brobecker wrote: > > NAK on sim/bfin/linux-fixed-code.s. that is code coming from the > > Linux kernel and licensing that under GPLv3 instead of GPLv2 would be > > entirely pointless (the Linux kernel isn't going GPLv3) and just cause > > me headaches. >=20 > I will revert the change for now, but I will also ask the FSF what > they want us to do. We were told explicitly that all files that > were GPLv2 or later should have been switched to GPLv3 or later. > One tiny change in the copyright header should be manageable, IMO, > particularly since you're already going to see a yearly change in > the copyright years as well. what i mean is worrying about the flow of code. if they aren't both GPLv2= =20 based, i now have to worry about people being able to make the claim that i= 'm=20 committing GPLv3 sim code to the GPLv2 kernel and tainting it. considering= =20 the code in question, doing GPLv3 on it will gain nothing. > > the sim/bfin/aclocal.m4 change doesn't make sense as that is a > > generated file and it's changing the license on a macro that's been > > imported from an external project. so it'll just get "reverted" next > > time the file gets regenerated. >=20 > I don't understand exactly the status of this file. Can I just > regenerate the "reverted" version and the project will still work? next time someone runs `aclocal` (like me), it'll blow away your changes as= it=20 copies m4 macros from files in /usr/share/ and into the aclocal.m4. -mike --nextPart1873910.YcaMkgXVs0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJQ0pVOAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBANAP/RlH/LXqtMiIQGUnvsgrzeaF uZVtFAXSAt/Nulf3lZBhJxJZoicmj/VU/Ar5ankBRKyLk3HatarHYrPg5dz6buN3 tlOOvS3tU+oOUJ6sSe7YG36fkOnBICMkHjKwWEDMqUeplCiGJTeyfr0pgKcpag0a BoPnOrK0ZkOxPY0s1ohPlP7KgFGA/G2BUx5Yv/x+sd6aJp2WzbItWVhpNvXey2QJ UqZf2pGqQuky5HnKyfigpzGkO9Dlil+zCupKJ2EOy0+8Iv4OmOlYXYifSBaULxds PDo0wQYGURVsCcJPF/SXXKEO6x6Br8EIcl2q7UUX9Nh2n0jS/MSO2aju+tJDt0qX CuT43ScdiOpCDpXteZuPjCv9CvN109m3u29Lo0IV6+NSf8pZgCqtyKDiwfZrbK5K z4ZO+A4XJ0kPQPOoi0xD0GWKzGzRcQ0NrZI5FYqxw7TI4NmRgZkbaskdHDguoDGa MKrc+u/Ri4kWkkTAgTkNVDs7rCGmjL2I8/fSDUeTt+4kK35HCYH20GZAppgXccpm v2hdqZuwyW5wSRvVlu2nw1GAi06WO658ruEeJt6XLYc9i17chNF9+/5bvtO24rtG 0A0zWvxEnj0jVUz14cRDSO0nZgog8ctrA9cFjxUzG8ktv2ZJYT5bcFljsjkZvMiZ UjrQdQcDngvoSKUlSvgM =leCR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1873910.YcaMkgXVs0--