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Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:28:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
- References: <20070808181156.GA20477@adacore.com> <ulkclg8v8.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:48:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?
One reason is that there are some files which refer to COPYING whose
license text we can not change. For instance, parts of sim are
copyright Andrew Cagney rather than the FSF - and I believe other
simulators are copyright various corporations. They're all "version 2
or later", so it is not a problem, but we do not have authority to
change the license statements in them.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery