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Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb


> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:29:37 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:06:41AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Sorry, I still don't get it: if those files refer to COPYING and are
> > "version 2 or later", then it sounds like having GPL v3 in a file
> > named "COPYING" is actually TRT to do, isn't it?
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> 
> That seems basically like changing their license to v3, to me, which
> we aren't allowed to do.

Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?


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