Machine and hosting donation for the GCC project

[Mike Stump]

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 01:04 PM, Laurent Guerby wrote:
> After a few private emails, it appears that there is no real procedure 
> for donating to the GCC project, hence no approval procedure :). Could 
> the GCC SC states wether it's okay to proceed with the donation or > not?

The status quo is for people to maintain ownership of their equipment, 
network links and the like, and donate use of those resources to 
relevant people on the gcc list.  This avoid liability, insurance, 
legal issues and so on.

If people really want to donate, the donations should be to the FSF 
directly (different contact address) with the details worked out there, 
and after that, the equipment made available to the SC or global write 
people for disposition and use (if OKed by the FSF).


For example, if I had a spare 16-way AMD Hammer system, I could set it 
up on the network, request a name, say cpu.gcc.gnu.org, get DNS set up 
for it, copy the /etc/passwd file from gcc.gnu.org, announce it on this 
list as a resource for people to put regression testers, builders and 
other CPU bound things on.

So, the right next step would be for them to decide if they must give 
it away or not.  And then, if they must, to contact the FSF directly.

One good reason why ownership might be better off left to the 
individual (or company), is that if the machine needs maintenance or 
upgrading, they perform it.

If this isn't status quo, someone can enlighten us.