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Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:28:03 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Why COPYING3? why not just COPYING?
> 
> One reason is that there are some files which refer to COPYING whose
> license text we can not change.  For instance, parts of sim are
> copyright Andrew Cagney rather than the FSF - and I believe other
> simulators are copyright various corporations.  They're all "version 2
> or later", so it is not a problem, but we do not have authority to
> change the license statements in them.

Sorry, I still don't get it: if those files refer to COPYING and are
"version 2 or later", then it sounds like having GPL v3 in a file
named "COPYING" is actually TRT to do, isn't it?

What am I missing?
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