From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8686 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2009 09:51:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 8677 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2009 09:51:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.enyo.de (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.189.167) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:51:34 +0000 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1MV0O7-0004d4-BT; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:51:27 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MV0O6-0003mb-UM; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:51:26 +0200 From: Florian Weimer To: Arnaud Charlet Cc: Joe Buck , "gcc\@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4 References: <87y6qcfprf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20090726015725.GA29580@synopsys.com> <87y6qc0wmc.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20090726093814.GD57052@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090726093814.GD57052@adacore.com> (Arnaud Charlet's message of "Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:38:14 +0200") Message-ID: <87prbnpyap.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00534.txt.bz2 * Arnaud Charlet: >> Eh, this exception doesn't change that the GPLv2 program perceives the >> GPLv3 as incompatible. Why would it? > > Is it GPLv2 or GPLv2+? GPLv2 (I tried to stress by writing "GPLv2-only"). > If the latter (the license includes something like "either version 2 > of the License, or (at your option) any later version"), then > nothing prevents you from distributing the program under GPLv3+ > instead of GPLv2+. Right, but we've got some stuff which is GPLv2-only, such as Git, OpenOffice, OpenJDK, etc.