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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:11:00 -0000
From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
cc: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>,      "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,      Nick Clifton <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
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> At which point I wonder why someone would have problems upgrading the
> license of an earlier GCC code base.  Can anyone list any reasons why
> this upgrade would be objectionable, considering that it was widely
> (?) known that GCC (and any other FSF-owned code) would upgrade to
> GPLv3 pretty much as soon as it was available?

I am not sure the customers of $X will appreciate a license change of
this kind with a point release, let a alone a customer-specific bug fix
release (or delaying the latter for legal review).  And the same holds 
for OEMs.

Feel free to replace $X by "your employer", "my employer", or the name
of any other significant GCC distributor. :-)

Gerald