Re: Automake (alpha) release request

[NightStrike]

On 12/17/07, Brian Dessent <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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 v3 for
> any releases past some date (2007-07-31?) which means reverting to v2 is
> not on the table.  But I could be misremembering.

Why would they expect conformance to a policy that isn't yet ready?

Also, what is the actual hold up?  Where in the pipeline is the issue
stagnating?