From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11796 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2007 14:23:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 11788 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jul 2007 14:22:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:22:56 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63EMmgD003439; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:22:48 -0400 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63EMlV3020663; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:22:47 -0400 Received: from [10.33.6.8] (vpn-6-8.fab.redhat.com [10.33.6.8]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63EMkGb032229; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:22:46 -0400 Message-ID: <468A5BBB.1060003@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:27:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070301) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FSF Licensing CC: Jakub Jelinek , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3 References: <20070703113243.GF4603@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070703113243.GF4603@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00064.txt.bz2 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.