[RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?
> 
> IANAL, but IMHO...
> 
> The old license allows us to *distribute* under newer terms.
> 
> It does not allow us to actually change the license.
> 
> I think this means that if we distribute a GPL2+ program to someone
> under the terms of GPL3, the program itself is still under the terms
> of GPL2+.

I'm not sure if this is right or not, but it certainly makes me
uncomfortable to go flipping other people's license terms.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery