Re: Updating src/contrib/binutils

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:16 +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 07:53 +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> because you are the maintainer of src/contrib/binutils, I first want to ask 
> >> you before I start to update src/contrib/binutils. I've read the README's 
> >> you've placed there, but 2 questions remain:
> [..]
> > This sounds intriguing.... what version of binutils are you updating to?
> 
> The most recent is 2.18, in src/ is 2.12 - so I would try to update to
> the most recent. This is nothing which will finished tomorrow or in a
> week - it will take some time.
> To be true, the reason why I wanna do this, is using SSE3 instructions ;-)
> 
> /Jens
> 

Sounds nice. Are there any considerations needed to be made concerning
GPLv3 licensing of newer binutils? I remember this came up before
concerning importing future revisions of GCC 4.2.x into the tree (right
now we've got one of the last GPL2 releases that were made).

-- 
Coleman Kane