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Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:37:08 -0700
Subject: Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
References: <46DE04BA.2090205@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709051019500.12692@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <46DED120.1040303@codesourcery.com> <10709051618.AA09392@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>

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.

References:
- GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: GCC 4.2.2 Status Report
  - From: Richard Kenner

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