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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <dosreis at gmail dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: dberlin at dberlin dot org, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:18:04 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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- Reply-to: gdr at integrable-solutions dot net
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Richard Kenner
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> It also sounds a lot like you are saying the Steering Commitee does
>> not care much if the FSF has control over the project, which I know to
>> be false :)
>
> I don't understand your point. GCC is an FSF project. ?The SC is acting
> here as an agent of the FSF. ?What the statement you quote means is that
> the SC will manage the project on behalf of the FSF in such a way that no
> single organization will have undo influence on it and the FSF: there's no
> way to read this as saying that the FSF, who's project it is in the first
> place, can't have undo influence ON ITSELF!
I must admit that this interpretation is quite new to me.
It certainly wasn't when EGCS reunited with gcc.
-- Gaby