Switching GAS to GPLv3

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:00:53PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   I have checked in a patch to switch all of the source files in the
>   gas/ directory over to version 3 of the GPL.  I will be updating the
>   other binutils directories over the next few days.

What does this mean for backporting fixes from binutils trunk to older
binutils releases?
Does this mean backports are not possible at all, or do we have to
relicense our legacy releases (that we want to backport stuff to) to GPLv3?

> 2007-07-03  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* COPYING: Replace with GPLv3 text.
> 	* app.c: Update copyright notice to refer to GPLv3.
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	Jakub