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Re: RFH: GPLv3

From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:34:48 -0300
Subject: Re: RFH: GPLv3
References: <4695B50B.6050108@codesourcery.com> <m3k5t5lmdu.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <4696526F.9010302@eagercon.com>

On Jul 12, 2007, Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> wrote:

> This would be chaotic.  Acme Co's version of gcc-3.4 might be GPLv2
> while MegaCorp's gcc-3.4 might be GPLv3.

This is already true today.  Even if MegaCorp doesn't make any changes
to the code, the code is available under GPLv2+, which means they can
license their compiler under GPLv3+, or GPLv3 only, at their choice.

And this is a good thing.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva         http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member         http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}

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

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