From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23684 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2009 14:12:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 23656 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2009 14:12:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:58 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E1510967; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279941060B; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LwGhV-00088M-MS; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:11:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Volkmann, Patrick" Cc: "'gdb@sourceware.org'" Subject: Re: GDB 6.8 - license terms Message-ID: <20090421141153.GA31143@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Volkmann, Patrick" , "'gdb@sourceware.org'" References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00171.txt.bz2 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Volkmann, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > i would appreciate your help with the following issue: > > The file "README" in the GDB 6.8 root contains the following phrase (line 42): > "...See the file COPYING or > COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the > GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files..." > > Now we detected in the source code GPL v2 and GPL v3 license terms > (e.g in the root, \gdb-6.8\COPYING and \gdb-6.8\COPYING3) > > But some subfolders only contain the GPL v2 license > (e.g. \gdb-6.8\bfd\COPYING, \gdb-6.8\gdb\COPYING, ... ) > > Because of the incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2, > we are not sure if we can consider the whole component as licensed under the terms of GPL v3. > > Can you please help me with this issue? Most FSF-owned code is licensed under the "GPL v2 or later" or "GPL v3 or later". When you mix those two, you must handle the result under GPL v3 (or a later version as released by the FSF in the future). It's not the COPYING files that are important, in any case, but the notices on the individual sources. GDB moved to GPLv3 around 2007-08-23, which was before the release of GDB 6.8. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery