Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl2/gmake/dist

2018-04-30 Thread Kamil Rytarowski 
On 01.05.2018 02:55, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article 
> ,
> Kimihiro Nonaka   wrote:
>> 2018-05-01 8:53 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski :
>>
>>> This is polling GPLv3 code into GPLv2 gmake - these licenses are
>>> incompatible.
> 
> You mean pulling here? There is no pulling GPLv3 code unless the code
> is copied from GPLv3.
> 

It was cherry-picked from GPLv3+.



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Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl2/gmake/dist

2018-04-30 Thread Christos Zoulas 
In article ,
Kimihiro Nonaka   wrote:
>2018-05-01 8:53 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski :
>
>> This is polling GPLv3 code into GPLv2 gmake - these licenses are
>> incompatible.

You mean pulling here? There is no pulling GPLv3 code unless the code
is copied from GPLv3.

>> I think we should either upgrade it to GPLv3 now or remove it.
>
>I've reverted it.
>
>Thank you for your report.

If you wrote the patch and you did not copy it from the new gmake, you don't
need to delete it. Making it work with a newer glibc does not change the
license of the program (GLIBC is LGPL so it does not taint).

christos

Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl2/gmake/dist

2018-04-30 Thread Kimihiro Nonaka 
2018-05-01 8:53 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski :

> This is polling GPLv3 code into GPLv2 gmake - these licenses are
> incompatible.
>
> I think we should either upgrade it to GPLv3 now or remove it.

I've reverted it.

Thank you for your report.

-- 
Kimihiro Nonaka