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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- To: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, 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, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:55:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- References: <20090320165858.GI27119@synopsys.com> <206fcf960903220808w4c04c0e9g74b25a55ea3d8b42@mail.gmail.com> <10903221517.AA05569@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <206fcf960903220823s6fe866fdja8c96e60bb3c432c@mail.gmail.com> <10903221537.AA05719@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <206fcf960903220850w3c8c01f9o7efe6833af8d770e@mail.gmail.com> <10903221608.AA05964@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <206fcf960903220924q150584b3lfb9da7cf2ecee80c@mail.gmail.com> <10903221635.AA06216@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903221745490.17788@zhemvz.fhfr.qr>
> 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/).
Well, as the copyright owner and the appointer of maintainers it is
pretty obvious that the FSF *can* do whatever they want. Obviously,
since they are intelligent people they will usually just ask you to
follow the GNU project guidelines (including the strong suggestions
about using C).
Paolo