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Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> 2009/3/13 Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> wrote:
>>> We have been asked by the SC to not branch for now but wait for
>>> the wording for the new runtime license to arrive from the FSF and
>>> that being put in place.
>> This is the saddest thing that I have seen in GCC politics so far.
>
> Why? The FSF is offering free legal advice *after* they put forward a
> proposal that raised doubts by some people. This is a very important
> step that will open the door for the plugins framework. So better safe
> than fast. I wish it would be faster but I can understand the FSF
> limitations.
>
> Moreover, a few P1 regressions have been fixed thanks to the wait.
> Also, nowadays it is very easy to work on branches. Is there anyone
> that is being held back by the release delay?
Well it's causing a backlog of patches for 4.5 to build up. If we branched
first and fixed the licence on the branch, we'd have to do more work by
applying the same changes to trunk and branch separately, but it would clear
the blockage. So I don't understand why we aren't going that way.
Can anyone clarify if the SC *really* need us to not branch before the
licence change, as opposed to merely not /release/ until then? (And why, if
so?)
cheers,
DaveK
