From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8779 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2007 20:51:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 8762 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2007 20:51:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:50:59 +0000 Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302E7B54E17; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 1A4CD300AD; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-a4c6bbb0000007df-d8-468eab31a65e Received: from [17.219.210.67] (int-si-a.apple.com [17.128.113.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 73B68300AB; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:50:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9DB7619D-8F9F-4741-B968-D2000BD6F151@apple.com> Cc: Nick Clifton , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mike Stump Subject: Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:51:00 -0000 To: Joseph S. Myers X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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/msg00117.txt.bz2 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. 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.