From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29285 invoked by alias); 9 Aug 2007 03:07:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 29182 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Aug 2007 03:06:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:06:53 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-113-145.inter.net.il [84.229.113.145]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HMG13098 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:06:54 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:07:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070808192803.GA17053@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:28:03 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20070808181156.GA20477@adacore.com> <20070808192803.GA17053@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2007-08/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:28:03 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Joel Brobecker , 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? What am I missing?