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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: rguenther at suse dot de
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:58:43 EDT
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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> Btw, I cannot find anything related to this discussion (about whether
> and what power the FSF has to force their maintainers to do anything)
> in the official FSF documentation (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
I can: it's the very first sentence:
This file contains guidelines and advice for someone who is the
maintainer of a GNU program on behalf of the GNU Project.
This clearly says that the maintainer is acting "on behalf" of the GNU
Project. That means they act as the AGENT of the GNU project. When you
act as somebody's agent, your authority derives from that person.