Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:11:56AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think the first step into moving to GPL v3 is to add a file named
> COPYING3 that contains a copy of the GPL v3 licensing terms. I looked
> at the GCC sources, and this is what they did. The GPL v2 license was
> still kept in COPYING.
> 
> 2007-08-08  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
>         * COPYING3: New file.
> 
> OK to apply?

Can we just use the copy from the top level of src?

I just noticed it hasn't been added to snapshots/releases yet; I will
take care of that.

> The next steps are bulk updates of the headers in the source files.
> I propose the following header, which is a modified version of the
> current ones, and slightly modeled on the GCC ones as well (for the
> later part that talks about how to obtain the license terms).
> 
>    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>    (at your option) any later version.
> 
>    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>    GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>    along with GCC; see the file COPYING3.  If not see
>    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> Would that be an acceptable header?

The recommended text from the GPL itself is:

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
I think we should stick with that (note that you said "version 2" in
your copy :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery