From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3777 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2007 09:47:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 3760 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2007 09:47:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:47:29 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l699lKWb002208; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:47:20 -0400 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l699lJMe011223; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:47:20 -0400 Received: from [10.33.6.13] (vpn-6-13.fab.redhat.com [10.33.6.13]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l699lIo1008963; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4692042A.9090408@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:47:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070301) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker , Mark Kettenis , nickc@redhat.com, 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: <200707061825.l66IPDiI029226@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20070706183355.GA29794@caradoc.them.org> <20070706193817.GA2364@adacore.com> <20070706205514.GA3923@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20070706205514.GA3923@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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/msg00143.txt.bz2 > Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Sounds good to me. I was getting ready to cut the branch this coming >> sunday. This is going to be a massive change; will we be able to make >> that conversion in time, Sorry - the conversion was not made over the weekend. Mark Mitchell has asked that the change over be held off until the discussion over what happens to new patches (to GPLv3 sources) that want to be backported to old branches (under GPLv2). >> or should I start thinking about branching later? If you can afford to wait then it would probably be a good thing. (On the assumption that releasing under the GPLv3 is better than releasing under GPLv2. At least for FSF projects anyway). > Daniel Jacobwitz wrote: > Might want to ask Nick how he did it. I'm not sure if there's any way > better than by hand. But it shouldn't be too hard, just large... By hand. :-) Directory edit mode in emacs plus several greps to make sure that I had not missed anything. Tedious but not difficult. Cheers Nick