On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it top secret information only available to some few members of the >> Steering Committee, or is some information sharable on this list? Just >> knowing that indeed a runtime library license will be finalized before >> Christmas (ie in 2008) and that GPL-ed plugins will be somehow >> "blessed" by the SC (or is it the FSF) will be a big relief. > > I have no additional information. I just want to make the point that > these issues involve lawyers, and they involve RMS, and it's not a > major priority for any of them. It takes time. It's frustrating. > But it is most likely not the case that secret negotiations are > happening. It is far more likely that nothing is happening at all. > > There is a simple technique which anybody is free to use to make this > happen much faster: make a large donation to the SFLC and/or the FSF, > contingent on this issue being finished. In the absence of that, it > will happen in the time that people have available to work on it.
How large is large?
