On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:49:59PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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. > > > that's sort of an unfair statement of the situation. > gplv3 is not compatible with v2, but for what would it need to be? YOu > can have v2 and v3 programs in the same distro just like you can have v2 > and other licensed programs in the same distro. > > It only becomes a problem when you're linking (and for most cases that > is fine) or are otherwise a derived work. The only problem is lgplv3, I don't see any problems with including gplv3 programs in Fedora and including gplv3 gcc or binutils in Fedora will be soon a necessity. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
