[PATCH 00/19] libctf, and CTF support for objdump and readelf
Nick Alcock
nick.alcock@oracle.com
Fri May 3 10:47:00 GMT 2019
On 1 May 2019, Jose E. Marchesi spake thusly:
>
> Hi Nick.
>
> One quick question before I start to dive into this particular patch series:
> Is there a reason why you are using GPLv2 and not GPLv3 for your files ?
>
> The binutils project as a whole uses GPLv3, so I would be concerned about
> accepting a large number of GPLv2 source files.
>
> Doh! We actually wanted to submit as GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. There is no
> reason to include v2, at all :)
>
> We will change the notifications to "version 3, or any later version" in
> subsequent versions of the patch serie.
Adjusted. This was just historical paranoia, really. (We'll be fine as
long as Linux kernel build-time code in scripts/ can still link with it
when it's GPLv3, and since the existing prototype is linking with
elfutils now and it's only a build tool and thus is not distributed in
linked form, we're probably fine -- or in trouble already. :) )
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