On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 16:14:15 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Because it makes no sense
A change in the copyright policies and ownership of a project is usually seen as a very big change, so much that usually the project change its whole name, not just its major version. > doing a GCC release is lots of work and GCC has a > roughly yearly release cadence for a reason. Actually an year of delay on such policy change would be very welcome. I would have really appreciated if the GCC SC had announced such change for the upcoming GCC 12 while sticking to the old policy in GCC 11. > You can always cherry-pick any changes assigned to FSF from trunk to > 11.1 on your own Sure, I can. But most users usually download tarballs. Having the first non-FSF-copyrighted version in a new version would be very appreciated by many organizations around the world that prefer to have as few legal dependencies as possible. That's why it's a major change for people downstream! Giacomo
