Hello Brett, Thanks for your reply.
* Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:47:18PM CEST: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:47:45PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Any news on this licensing issue in Automake yet, or is it even one > > that needs any more work at all? > > Like I said, we would like to update the text if possible, just to bring > the vocabulary up-to-date if nothing else. I just sent a mail to gnu-prog > that has more details about why the update process is taking longer than we > initially thought. Is this the only blocker for your next release at this > point? Not the only one, but for another stable release (1.10.1), I don't think much else would be needed. IMVHO another major release (1.11) can wait until some more new features have been added, but from a licensing standpoint both are identical. > Do you have a particular date you want to make a release by? No. Alexandre? > > Please note that Libtool is waiting for a licensing clarification as > > well, before moving to anything-v3. > > My understanding is that it's in the same waiting-for-an-updated-exception > boat; if I'm wrong, please let me know. Libtool hasn't changed any of its licensing texts yet, so when we do a release earlier than you're done, it will just be a GPLv2+/LGPLv2+ plus exceptions one there. Automake has seen patches to move to GPLv3+; it would not be a lot of work to undo them and do a GPLv2+ release, but I don't know whether that would cause legal issues; also, the new license is exactly one reason to have a new stable release. Cheers, Ralf
