From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10129 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2012 03:58:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 10120 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2012 03:58:13 -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; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:58:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC0E1C6B70; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:58:03 -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 p7GB1PFzxeBr; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:58:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CE91C67F4; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:58:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 757BBC14CE; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:57:50 +0400 (RET) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:58:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Update some sim copyright headers to GPLv3-or-later Message-ID: <20121220035750.GC6130@adacore.com> References: <20121219072641.GQ3273@adacore.com> <201212191353.49689.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201212191353.49689.vapier@gentoo.org> 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/msg00728.txt.bz2 Mike, Thanks for looking at the patch :). > 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. 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. > 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. I don't understand exactly the status of this file. Can I just regenerate the "reverted" version and the project will still work? > for the others, i'm guessing this was a script based conversion ? i'm > not sure this can be blindly done as someone has to double check there > aren't any GPLv2 specific files. unlikely, and probably already > problematic if such an issue exists, but still better to verify first > ... Yes, it was a script based conversion (or rather, perl one-liners). But I used a regexp that verified that we had the option of switching to a later version of the GPL. I scanned a large number of the changes, but I did not check each one of them individually. -- Joel