On Jul 12, 2007, Benjamin Smedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously the FSF can relicense any code they want to GPL3... that doesn't > mean that this community couldn't decide to only accept patches to the > GCC4.2 branch that are licensed under the GPL2+.
This wouldn't change the fact that any upcoming release of GCC issued by the FSF ought to be under GPLv3. But yes, people could still backport patches into their own GPLv2 releases given the policy above. But having backporters ask for permission from the authors or from the FSF sounds like a good incentive for them to switch to GPLv3 to avoid the hassle. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
