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Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3


On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
I do hope the FSF answer the backporting question
<http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-07/msg00057.html> sooner rather
than later.

I'd hope to have an answer to the backport question before we start changing files. I'd hope that we'd change gcc first, then src. If the FSF would just say, sure, you can drag fixes, patches and improvements from the FSF gcc repository under GPLv3 back to GPLv2 vendor gcc release branches for the next year or two and those can be released under the GPLv2, I think that would make things easier to deal with. After two years, I'd expect that most of the vendors would have cycled away from older compilers. However, some people, like the embedded types can hang on to older compilers for longer than you'd expect.


I'd look to the SC on guidance on when and how we start cutting over.


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