ROOL stated before that they needed to finalize the licence details first before anything else could happen. So Aaron's rather unfriendly words have changes precisely nothing at all, since they now have provoked an answer which tells us what we already know: that the licence details need to be finalized first.
I find it very amusing that, two months after the initial announcement, people already complain about slowness. After all, no promise was made for the date of the first part of the source release. And everything which takes less than a year from announcement to release is rather fast in RISC OS world. See Vantage, Omega, Select...