RFA: Add GPLv3 COPYING files
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 09:39:00 GMT 2007
Hi Mark,
>> 2007-07-14 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
>>
>> * COPYING_v3: New file. Contains version 3 of the GNU General
>> Public License.
>> * COPYING.LIB_v3: New file. Contains version 3 of the GNU
>> Lesser General Public License.
>> * doc/include/gpl_v3.texi: New file. Contains version 3 of
>> the GNU General Public License.
>
> This change is OK. The changes to runtime libraries (libstdc++,
> libjava) should wait until we are sure we understand the GPL + exception
> situation. The changes to the toplevel (libiberty, include) should be
> done by the toplevel maintainers, presumably after everything underneath
> has already been switched.
I will hold off making changes to the toplevel files, but I thought that
it would be OK to go ahead and add these new files since they do not
actually force anything to use the GPLv3.
> I know we're bikeshedding, but if you could do Alexandre's suggestion of
> "COPYING3" and "COPYING3.LIB", I think that's even better.
Done.
Cheers
Nick
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