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Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: 09 Aug 2007 19:12:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA/GPLv3] Add COPYING3 to gdb
- References: <ud4xwfj9e.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Doesn't version 3 fit the "version 2 or later" clause?
IANAL, but IMHO...
The old license allows us to *distribute* under newer terms.
It does not allow us to actually change the license.
I think this means that if we distribute a GPL2+ program to someone
under the terms of GPL3, the program itself is still under the terms
of GPL2+.