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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Richard Kenner
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> > The ?GCC maintainers work on behalf of the FSF and in some matters defer
>> > to the FSF. ?It's that simple.
>>
>> Yes, but it's not written anywhere that release and especially branching
>> policies are one of this matters.
>
> The matters to which we defer to the FSF are any matters that they *ask*
> us to! ?They own the code. ?If RMS, for some reason, decides that he doesn't
> like the phrasing of a comment somewhere, we have to either convince RMS
> he's wrong or change the comment.
>
> As a practical matter, the FSF *delegates* most of their responsibilities
> to the maintainer of the package, but they can undo that delegation as to
> any matter any time they want.
>

By this, FSF == RMS ?


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