gpl 3 code is verboten for all the right reasons. We'll take a newer gdb if someone sends in patches.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:22:57PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > Directing this to misc, as I am not sure tech@ should be bothered. > > I was just poking around the system and noticed that gdb 6.3 is in > base. Is there any reason other than GPL v3 license that a newer > version hasn't been imported into base? I checked and saw that gdb 6.6 > is the last one which allows GPL v2 or later. When you run gdb 6.6 it > gives the same notice as the base gdb 6.3. > > gdb 6.7 onwards come with GPL v3. When you run gdb 6.7 and up the > notice is changed and it now says v3 or later. > > Thanks, > amit
