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Re: RFH: GPLv3

From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
To: dewar at adacore dot com
Cc: eager at eagercon dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com, njn at csse dot unimelb dot edu dot au
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:36:24 EDT
Subject: Re: RFH: GPLv3
References: <4695B50B.6050108@codesourcery.com> <46965067.3050809@eagercon.com> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0707131920210.20833@mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au> <46975334.5000404@adacore.com> <4697A029.4050203@eagercon.com> <4698464B.2000908@adacore.com>

> One could of course just take a blanket view that everything on the
> site is, as of a certain moment, licensed under GPLv3 (note you
> don't have to change file headers to achieve this, the file headers
> have no particular legal significance in any case).

Given the July 31 "deadline", that's essentially what's being done: any
file with a date before August 1, 2007 is GPLv2 and any after is GPLv3.
This is one of the reasons why I don't see the version number change as
so significant.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Michael Eager

References:
- RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Michael Eager
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Nicholas Nethercote
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Michael Eager
- Re: RFH: GPLv3
  - From: Robert Dewar

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