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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAM+xf6CEAzAK+1MWf7MUkcE6ZK--A2HTirHNMT7wOdZ6-i0S0g%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Kimihiro Nonaka  <nonakap%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>2018-05-01 8:53 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>:
>
>> 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