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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
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> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:30:56 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > > > Why COPYING3? why not just COPYING?
> > > 
> > > One reason is that there are some files which refer to COPYING whose
> > > license text we can not change.  For instance, parts of sim are
> > > copyright Andrew Cagney rather than the FSF - and I believe other
> > > simulators are copyright various corporations.  They're all "version 2
> > > or later", so it is not a problem, but we do not have authority to
> > > change the license statements in them.
> > 
> > Sorry, I still don't get it: if those files refer to COPYING and are
> > "version 2 or later", then it sounds like having GPL v3 in a file
> > named "COPYING" is actually TRT to do, isn't it?
> 
> The files don't refer to COPYING, they refer to the GPL license v3
> or later.

Maybe I'm confused: which files specifically are you talking about?