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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