RFH: GPLv3

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Thu Jul 12 15:40:00 GMT 2007


>>>>> Benjamin Smedberg writes:

Doug> It seems obvious to me that it would be easiest to just move today's
Doug> mainline over to GPLv3, and have every GCC release >= 4.3 be GPLv3. We
Doug> could then either cut off the GCC 4.2 branch entirely or leave it
Doug> GPLv2. Then there are no surprises for anyone.
>> 
>> Leaving released branches as GPLv2 is not an option.  That
>> definitely would be the path of least surprise.

Ben> Why is it not an option?

	Because the FSF says it is not an option.  The FSF holds the
copyright and decides on the licensing.

David



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