RFH: GPLv3

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@cs.tamu.edu
Thu Jul 12 15:53:00 GMT 2007


David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

| >>>>> Doug Gregor writes:
| 
| Doug> Could we ask the SC to reconsider the change in the GCC major version
| Doug> numbering for GPLv3? Or, at the very least, explain why it is
| Doug> important to change the major version number for a mere license
| Doug> change?
| 
| 	To avoid confusion among GCC users who do not expect a bug fix
| release to introuduce a new license.

then, let's close the tree.  It is far less confusing than the
proposed renaming scheme.

-- Gaby



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