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

Gerald Pfeifer
2007-07-09T15:11:16Z

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