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Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: FSF Licensing <licensing at fsf dot org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:22:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3
References: <m3hcolsqe2.fsf@redhat.com> <20070703113243.GF4603@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>

Hi Guys,

I am in the process of changing the GNU Binutils sources over to use the GPLv3 and I received a question from one or the main contributors:

Jakub Jelinek wrote:

What does this mean for backporting fixes from binutils trunk to older
binutils releases?
Does this mean backports are not possible at all, or do we have to
relicense our legacy releases (that we want to backport stuff to) to GPLv3?

Can you answer this for me ? ie what should happen when someone wants to apply a patch that has been contributed to a GPLv3 source file to an old branch ? Especially when that old branch is part of an officially released set of sources that are covered by the GPLv2 ?

Cheers
  Nick Clifton
  GNU Binutils Chief Maintainer.

References:
- Switching GAS to GPLv3
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: Switching GAS to GPLv3
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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