[Bug other/35905] New: gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references
carlton at bactrian dot org
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Thu Apr 10 23:13:00 GMT 2008
I just downloaded GCC 4.2.3, and discovered that it states in several places
that it's using GPL v2 instead of v3; my impression from following the mailing
lists is that it (and even 4.2.2) should be GPL v3.
One example (a particularly important one, since it's most exposed to the user)
is the manual:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.3/gcc/Copying.html#Copying>. Also, the
top-level directory of the source contains v2 versions of COPYING and
COPYING.LIB. (I don't know what, if any, files within the tree refer to the
top-level versions of those files, instead of the versions within
subdirectories, but it is at the very least confusing to only have v2 versions
at the top level.) Another example I ran across is that files in libstdc++/src
refer to GPL v2. (Though, given the presence of the exception there, there's
probably little difference between v2 and v3...)
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Summary: gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references
Product: gcc
Version: 4.2.3
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: other
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: carlton at bactrian dot org
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35905
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