From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26312 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2009 15:52:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 26301 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Dec 2009 15:52:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.63) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:52:21 +0000 Received: from [68.104.75.79] (helo=macbook-2.local) by elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NLf7r-0005hT-7q; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:52:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2BA52B.5010605@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:52:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] what should we do about COPYING? References: <20091218073249.GC2788@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20091218073249.GC2788@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da94023731fa61e1149765829705382651419350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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: 2009-12/txt/msg00256.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: > Michael Snyder pointed out that gdb/COPYING contains the GPLv2, > whereas GDB is now under GPLv3. I was simply going to replace the > contents of COPYING with the GPLv3, except that I noticed an > inconsistent resolution depending on the project. For instance: > > - In the root directory, we have COPYING (v2) and COPYING3 (v3); > - In bfd, we have COPYING that contains the GPL v3. > > I personally do not see the point of keeping the GPL v2 around, > and thus suggest that we replace the contents COPYING rather than > adding an extra file named COPYING3. Note that we have a couple > of extra copies in the sim directory as well. > The root dir has to cover all bases; there may be src/ projects that have not updated. But gdb/ and below is all v3 (right?), there would be no code to which a copy of v2 would apply, and so we want just the one file COPYING that is v3. Stan