Sebastian Pipping wrote:
If the FSF handles this problem also putting out a
non-alpha-non-beta 1.11 release of Automake before
2008-02-01 I will donate k Euros to the FSF with k equal
the number of days left to that deadline, e.g. if Automake
1.11 is released on 2008-01-31 I will
Hello Ralf!
First sorry for not replying earlier.
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Second, wrt. to Automake releases: I would have no problem doing a
1.10.1 very soon, using GPLv2+, which however installs the GPLv3
COPYING file into new packages (automake -a), and which has the lzma
patch from master.
Bob Proulx wrote:
> There are a number of projects that are also waiting for this
> licensing issue to be resolved. Everyone wants it to happen. But the
> automake team's hands are tied while the FSF works this licensing
> issue out. I can only recommend patience.
Let me make an announcement he
Brian Dessent wrote:
>> I'd like to see that as well but I doubt it will happen.
>
> It's not politically feasible since official GNU projects are supposed
> to reflect the GNU project's philosophies. I seem to recall that there
> was a mandate that all official GNU projects were expected to use
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The license update can simply be temporarily reverted back to v2 (with
> FSF approval).
I'd like to see that as well but I doubt it will happen.
> History shows that this could take months, or over a year to work out.
I think it's a year already :-(
> It is possible
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> Thanks for your replies! As I understood the Automake
>> release is delayed because its licensing info has not
>> been updated to GPLv3 yet?
>
> Actually the reverse. Because the licensing has already been updated
>
Thanks for your replies! As I understood the Automake
release is delayed because its licensing info has not
been updated to GPLv3 yet?
If that is the case I wonder why new code depends
on this. Can't you just push the licensing thing
to a later release if the responsible people don't
have time for
Hello!
I found out Automake does support LZMA for some time now
but no release (not even alpha) has been made after.
Assuming that the current trunk is not more unstable than
alpha please consider putting out a new (alpha?) release
of Automake. There is no release for this year yet,
would be gre
