gcc-4.1-20080303 is now available

[Richard Guenther]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote:
>
>  >> I too think that it would be a bad idea to switch the 4.1 branch to
>  >> GPLv3,
>  >
>  > Can you please elabortate why?
>
>  I think it's a bad idea to change the license on a release branch in
>  deep maintenance mode.  That would be a surprise to users.  The idea of
>  such branches has always been that you could get the latest bits and
>  just pick up some bug fixes.  GPLv3 is not a bug fix in the usual sense.
>
>  I argued against changing the license for 4.2.x for the same reasons,
>  but was overruled by RMS.  But, there, for all practical purposes, we
>  had to make a new release.  It would be in keeping with our past
>  practice to let 4.1.x slowly wither away at this point.
>
>  That said, I'm not going to argue this too forcefully.  If someone wants
>  to do all the work to update everything to GPLv3 and do a release, so be
>  it.  I would just ask that the GPLv3-ness of the release be made
>  aggressively obvious.

You mean like calling it gcc 4.4.0? :P  Honestly let's not offer this to
someone who likes to do the work.

Richard.