From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xnmyx0mhff.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud4xwfj9e.fsf@gnu.org>
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+.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-09 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 18:08 Joel Brobecker
2007-08-08 18:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-08 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 19:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-09 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-09 22:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 11:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-09 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-09 23:12 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2007-08-10 2:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-10 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10 15:47 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-10 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-10 18:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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