Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:11:56 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> I think the first step into moving to GPL v3 is to add a file named
> COPYING3 that contains a copy of the GPL v3 licensing terms.

Why COPYING3? why not just COPYING?

> I looked at the GCC sources, and this is what they did.

Emacs calls this file COPYING, not COPYING3.

> The GPL v2 license was still kept in COPYING.

Why do we need to keep GPL v2?

> The next steps are bulk updates of the headers in the source files.
> I propose the following header, which is a modified version of the
> current ones, and slightly modeled on the GCC ones as well (for the
> later part that talks about how to obtain the license terms).
> 
>    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>    (at your option) any later version.
> 
>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>    along with GCC; see the file COPYING3.  If not see
>    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> Would that be an acceptable header?

Sorry, I don't understand why we need to change the current wording,
and why does the above mention GPL v2 instead of v3.  Could you please
explain?