On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:14 AM Jose E. Marchesi <jose.march...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > GCC was created as part of the GNU Project but has grown to operate as > > an autonomous project. > > > > The GCC Steering Committee has decided to relax the requirement to > > assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation. GCC > > will continue to be developed, distributed, and licensed under the GNU > > General Public License v3.0. GCC will now accept contributions with or > > without an FSF copyright assignment. This change is consistent with > > the practices of many other major Free Software projects, such as the > > Linux kernel. > > > > Contributors who have an FSF Copyright Assignment don't need to > > change anything. Contributors who wish to utilize the Developer Certificate > > of Origin[1] should add a Signed-off-by message to their commit messages. > > Developers with commit access may add their name to the DCO list in the > > MAINTAINERS file to certify the DCO for all future commits in lieu of > > individual > > Signed-off-by messages for each commit. > > > > The GCC Steering Committee continues to affirm the principles of Free > > Software, and that will never change. > > > > - The GCC Steering Committee > > > > [1] https://developercertificate.org/ > > Eer, so you are changing the license of GCC from GPLv3+ to GPLv3 only??
The current, active license in GPL v3.0. This is not an announcement of any change in license. Quoting Jason Merrill: "GCC's license is "GPL version 3 or later", so if there ever needed to be a GPL v4, we could move to it without needing permission from anyone." Thanks, David
