Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
> Date: 09 Aug 2007 19:12:04 -0400
> 
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?
> 
> IANAL, but IMHO...
> 
> The old license allows us to *distribute* under newer terms.
> 
> It does not allow us to actually change the license.
> 
> I think this means that if we distribute a GPL2+ program to someone
> under the terms of GPL3, the program itself is still under the terms
> of GPL2+.

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding.  I didn't suggest to change the
blurb in the files.  All I suggested is replace the file COPYING we
have now (which is GPL v2 text) with GPL v3 text, without changing the
name of the file, so it's still COPYING.

This way, the files that are under "version 2 or later" are still
okay, since we distribute them under GPL v3.

Okay?