From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: FSF Licensing <licensing@fsf.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468A5BBB.1060003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070703113243.GF4603@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>
Hi Guys,
I am in the process of changing the GNU Binutils sources over to use
the GPLv3 and I received a question from one or the main contributors:
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 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?
Can you answer this for me ? ie what should happen when someone
wants to apply a patch that has been contributed to a GPLv3 source file
to an old branch ? Especially when that old branch is part of an
officially released set of sources that are covered by the GPLv2 ?
Cheers
Nick Clifton
GNU Binutils Chief Maintainer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 11:30 Nick Clifton
2007-07-03 12:43 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-07-03 14:27 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2007-07-03 14:51 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-07-11 16:19 ` Nick Clifton
2007-07-23 15:51 ` Ralf Corsepius
2007-07-23 20:29 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2007-07-24 11:01 ` Nick Clifton
2007-07-03 13:30 ` l l
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