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Re: RFH: GPLv3

From: Serge Belyshev <belyshev at depni dot sinp dot msu dot ru>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:09:48 +0400
Subject: Re: RFH: GPLv3
References: <4695B50B.6050108@codesourcery.com> <m3k5t5lmdu.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:

[...]
> My personal preference would be to acknowledge that for our users
> there is no significant difference between GPLv2 and GPLv3.  And we
> should acknowledge that people backporting patches from later releases
> are already going to have to relicense to GPLv3.  Therefore, we should
> simply change gcc 4.2.2 to be GPLv3.  This is a lot of churn on the
> branch, and I wish it were unnecessary, but presumably the FSF
> requires it.  I think that choice is the lesser evil.

Strongly agreed!

Personally, I think that bumping version number is the worst possible solution
of all proposed.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Robert Dewar

References:
- RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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