Re: GDB transition to GPLv3 should now be complete

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:12:51 -0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> GDB is now licensed under the terms of GPLv3.
> 
> There is one issue identified left before the release: printing of
> signed and unsigned characters and strings. I found the patch
> submission, but it looks like it never went in (for lack of agreement
> on it?).

Yes, and I think the only reasonable thing to do in this case is to
stick with historical behaviour.

> I would like to give a week to any dust that might have been created by
> the switch to GPLv3 to settle. Let's take a decision about the issue
> above (either fix, defer, or leave as is). I'm targetting a branch
> creation date around Aug 31st (I'm actually flying again the next day,
> so the actual creation might happen a few days after).

Good!  I'll try to give it a spin on several of my OpenBSD boxes.
Hopefully people will be a bit conservative with checking stuff in
before the branch is created.

Mark