Re: gcc-4.1-20080303 is now available

["Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Kaveh R. GHAZI <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Joe Buck wrote:
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>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:12PM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> 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?
>  >
>  > If there are nontrivial bug fixes in the SVN branch but not in the last
>  > 4.1.x release, I think it would be better to use the
>  > final-release-then-close approach, so that there is an available tarball on
>  > fsf.gnu.org that has all of the work and people don't have to use SVN
>  > or a snapshot for anything.
>
>  I support the final-release-then-close approach.  But can we get a
>  volunteer to convert that branch to GPLv3... ?

I strongly object to moving the 4.1 brach to GPLv3.

Richard.