On Jul 12, 2007, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. GCC 4.2.1 will be the last GPLv2 release. The FSF will permit > backports from mainline to GCC 4.2.1, if necessary, to be downlicensed > to GPLv2, as part of that release.
> 3. After GCC 4.2.1 is released, we will renumber the branch to GCC 4.3. How about, after the 4.2.1 release, switch the branch to GPLv3 and then release 4.2.3, without any functional changes, under GPLv3? The skipped minor version number (to a .3, no less) and the quick succession of releases would probably hint at the license upgrade, and it would probably make the FSF happier with a GCC release under GPLv3 in a short time-frame. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
