Re: GNU uploads frozen for GPLv3 release

[Bruce Korb]

On 6/28/07, Brett Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear GNU Maintainers,
>
> Very soon the FSF sysadmins will freeze software uploads to the GNU FTP
> site.  You will still be able upload new files at your convenience, but
> for now they will not be processed and published.  The system will begin
> running again shortly after GPLv3's release tomorrow.
>
> For those of you upgrading to GPLv3 tomorrow, this should give you an
> opportunity to upload source a little early if you need to do so.  Of
> course, you're still free to upload after the release as well, and that's
> probably preferable if it makes no difference to you.  I will be sending
> you final license text to include with your releases later today.
>
> If you have any questions or concerns about this, please don't hesitate to
> contact me.

I still think it a _really_good_idea_ to try to get a pre-release
of autoconf today that will auto-install the COPYING file for
most of us folks.  Works that way for both of my projects....
It would require manual intervention to force a different
COPYING file without such a release.

Thanks -Bruce