From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18803 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2007 11:30:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 18790 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jul 2007 11:30:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz (HELO sunsite.mff.cuni.cz) (195.113.15.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:30:25 +0000 Received: from sunsite.mff.cuni.cz (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sunsite.mff.cuni.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l63BWh8w011646; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:32:43 +0200 Received: (from jakub@localhost) by sunsite.mff.cuni.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l63BWh8l011645; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:32:43 +0200 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:43:00 -0000 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Nick Clifton Cc: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3 Message-ID: <20070703113243.GF4603@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:00:53PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > I have checked in a patch to switch all of the source files in the > gas/ directory over to version 3 of the GPL. I will be updating the > other binutils directories over the next few days. What does this mean for backporting fixes from binutils trunk to older binutils releases? Does this mean backports are not possible at all, or do we have to relicense our legacy releases (that we want to backport stuff to) to GPLv3? > 2007-07-03 Nick Clifton > > * COPYING: Replace with GPLv3 text. > * app.c: Update copyright notice to refer to GPLv3. ... Jakub