From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23733 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2011 16:57:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 23725 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2011 16:57:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:57:18 +0000 Received: from [213.157.30.140] (port=42230 helo=termi.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCaiL-0002qE-L7; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:57:17 -0400 From: jemarch@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Work on the SIS ERC32 Emulator References: <87k4erg3ip.fsf@gnu.org> <20110418163319.GE2402@adacore.com> <8762qbseb0.fsf@gnu.org> <20110420161910.GN21392@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:57:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20110420161910.GN21392@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:19:10 -0700") Message-ID: <87k4eo6fkq.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2011-04/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 Hi. We failed to follow the normal guidelines, and I've heard the reason for that in some of the cases, but that was a long time ago. IMO, that was a mistake, for several reasons I don't want to detail here. I fully agree with the FSF policy of requiring copyright assignments for the "important" projects :) However, as you have noticed, because the FSF is not the copyright holder of some of the files, we couldn't update the license to GPLv3. They are GPLv2+, so you can simply "relicense" to GPLv3+. It is not really relicensing, but just choosing a subset of the available set of licenses the files are distributed under. > Do you plan to upgrade the files under 'sis' from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+? I only see 2 "sis" files: erc32/sis.[hc]. Are these the files you are referring to? Sorry. I meant the files under sim/erc32. -- Jose E. Marchesi jemarch@gnu.org GNU Project http://www.gnu.org