From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30269 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2007 01:56:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 30203 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2007 01:56:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:56:22 +0000 Received: from relay8.apple.com (relay8.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A223B6B482; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay8.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 62134400EA; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:56:20 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807126-a48d2bb0000007dd-c2-469438c4e754 Received: from greed.local (int-si-a.apple.com [17.128.113.41]) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 3A93340007; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by greed.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8059F9167D7; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT) To: Nick Clifton Cc: 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: From: Geoffrey Keating Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00168.txt.bz2 Nick Clifton writes: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to apply a patch to change the files that are shared by > the GCC, GDB and BINUTILS projects over to version 3 of the GNU > General Public License. (ie all the top level files except for > those that have a distinct project that owns them, plus all of the > files in the include/ directory tree). Hi Nick, I presume this will include files licensed with an exception, like include/demangle.h. Some time before you do this, could you post the exact wording so I can have legal people look at it? During development of GPLv3 some questions were raised as to whether exceptions like this one would truly allow linking with non-free code, or whether the DRM and patent provisions would still apply with this wording, and so the wording of the exception would need to be changed.