[Bug other/35905] New: gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[Bug other/35905] New: gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[carlton at bactrian dot org]

I just downloaded GCC 4.2.3, and discovered that it states in several places
that it's using GPL v2 instead of v3; my impression from following the mailing
lists is that it (and even 4.2.2) should be GPL v3.

One example (a particularly important one, since it's most exposed to the user)
is the manual:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.3/gcc/Copying.html#Copying>.  Also, the
top-level directory of the source contains v2 versions of COPYING and
COPYING.LIB.  (I don't know what, if any, files within the tree refer to the
top-level versions of those files, instead of the versions within
subdirectories, but it is at the very least confusing to only have v2 versions
at the top level.)  Another example I ran across is that files in libstdc++/src
refer to GPL v2.  (Though, given the presence of the exception there, there's
probably little difference between v2 and v3...)


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           Summary: gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.2.3
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: carlton at bactrian dot org


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #1 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-10 23:17 -------
>(Though, given the presence of the exception there, there's
probably little difference between v2 and v3...)

Actually this is why those have not been moved yet.


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #2 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-10 23:19 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually this is why those have not been moved yet.

And more to the point, the FSF lawyers have not decided how to word the
exception for the GPLv3.

Now Copying.html is a different story and I think was already fixed.


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #3 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-10 23:20 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Now Copying.html is a different story and I think was already fixed.
And has: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00106.html .


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #4 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-10 23:21 -------
I don't think we should keep this bug opened any more as the only issue left to
"fix" is really in the FSF hands and they are already working on it.


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[carlton at bactrian dot org]

------- Comment #5 from carlton at bactrian dot org  2008-04-10 23:30 -------
Thanks for the info.  I just did a spot check on the trunk and
4.2 branch: it looks like all the currently fixable issues I raised are fixed
in the trunk, and Copying.html is probably fixed in the branch (I saw
gpl_v3.texi).  But there's no COPYING3{,.LIB} at the toplevel
of the 4.2 branch, which I think is important to reduce confusion.

I didn't spot check the 4.3 or 4.1 branches.  (Is 4.1 still open?
I don't remember.)


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #6 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-10 23:34 -------
>(Is 4.1 still open? I don't remember.)

Yes but no .... see the thread starting at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-03/msg00163.html .

4.3 branch should be have already COPYING3{,.LIB} as it was the trunk when they
were added.


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[Bug other/35905] gcc 4.2.3 still contains many GPL v2 references

[jsm28 at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #7 from jsm28 at gcc dot gnu dot org  2010-05-22 17:40 -------
4.2 branch is closed.  All GPL files whose home is GCC rather than being
shared with other projects were updated for 4.4 at the latest as far as I know.


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jsm28 at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |4.4.0


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