Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3

[Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>]

On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> I do hope the FSF answer the backporting question
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-07/msg00057.html> sooner  
> rather
> than later.

I'd hope to have an answer to the backport question before we start  
changing files.  I'd hope that we'd change gcc first, then src.  If  
the FSF would just say, sure, you can drag fixes, patches and  
improvements from the FSF gcc repository under GPLv3 back to GPLv2  
vendor gcc release branches for the next year or two and those can be  
released under the GPLv2, I think that would make things easier to  
deal with.  After two years, I'd expect that most of the vendors  
would have cycled away from older compilers.  However, some people,  
like the embedded types can hang on to older compilers for longer  
than you'd expect.

I'd look to the SC on guidance on when and how we start cutting over.