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Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:38:14 +0200
Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4
References: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20090726015725.GA29580@synopsys.com> <87y6qc0wmc.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

> Eh, this exception doesn't change that the GPLv2 program perceives the
> GPLv3 as incompatible.  Why would it?

Is it GPLv2 or GPLv2+? If the latter (the license includes something like
"either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version"),
then nothing prevents you from distributing the program under GPLv3+ instead
of GPLv2+.

Arno

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