From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24877 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2007 21:11:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 24864 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2007 21:11:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:10:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 28713 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 21:10:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 6 Jul 2007 21:10:57 -0000 Message-ID: <468EAFDA.1050800@codesourcery.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:11:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Stump CC: "Joseph S. Myers" , Nick Clifton , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3 References: <9DB7619D-8F9F-4741-B968-D2000BD6F151@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <9DB7619D-8F9F-4741-B968-D2000BD6F151@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2007-07/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 Mike Stump wrote: > On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >> I do hope the FSF answer the backporting question >> sooner rather >> than later. > > I'd hope to have an answer to the backport question before we start > changing files. Me too. Without seeing Joseph's notes, or the binutils message, I'd already raised this issue with RMS on the SC list. As was asked on the binutils list, I'd like to understand whether or not we can backport GPLv3 changes to GPLv2 code. The question of whether or not the GCC 4.2.x release branch will be relicensed as GPLv3 is also being discussed. There is no question that GCC 4.3.0 will be GPLv3, but I don't think that we should change the files in the repository until the SC discussion is complete. I think it will probably reach that point early next week. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713