NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jul 24 19:40:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:34 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:20:45 +0200
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> > Then spare your breath. I've been told all FSF owned packages will
> > change to [L]GPLv3 by RMS order until 2007-07-31. 
> > 
> > GCC/binutils/gdb already are changing. I don't know about others.
> > Once glibc will change, you can mark all packages for "review by
> > legal".
> 
> Until the FSF figures out what the hell they're going to do with gplv2
> being incompatible with gplv3, we can't allow it in the distribution.
Check the gcc list. There is pretty monsterous discussion on related
topics taking place (100+ postings so far).

Ralf






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