On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Gabriel Dos Reis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > >> > Do we still want to keep this branch alive? > >> > >> Looking at the changes that were made in the last three months still, > >> it seems the branch is still surprisingly alive, so it may not yet be > >> the time to close it. Personally I don't have a preference either way, > >> but I'll update our main page to reflect the current status (no new > >> releases, among others) a bit better and if the decision is to close > >> it down volunteer to take the necessary steps. > > > > The alternative would to be to make a final release and close it. > > We have two options. What do people think? > > My understanding is that the FSF has directed us to not make any > further GPLv2 releases. So if we do a 4.1.3 release, the branch needs > to be converted to GPLv3. This could be done using Nick Clifton's > script, but somebody would have to do the work. > > I'm relatively agnostic on whether to do a 4.1.3 release or not.
I think we agreed to _not_ move the 4.1 branch to GPLv3. So, if the FSF says we may not release as GPLv2 then we should not do a 4.1.3 release. The branch is simply open as 4.1 is widely adopted and distributors ship from the top of the branch and not from point-releases anyway. Richard.
