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Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:18:36PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > The files with exceptions might not be compatible with GPLv3 by themselves
>
> Why? I thought GPLv2 and GPLv3 are "compatible".
They are not; each requires that the work as a whole be licensed the same
as the individual file. However, we never had any GPLv2-only files. A
GPLv2-or-any-later-version file is compatible with GPLv3.