On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Steven Bosscher wrote: > 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.
I don't understand why you think it's sad. The reason for the delay is the objections that were raised on this list, well-summarized by Ian Taylor in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-01/msg00596.html The delay is because the FSF is taking these objections seriously and is trying to correct the problems. Would it be happier for you if the FSF just ignored developers' concerns?