gpl version 3 and gcc

[Brooks Moses]

Ed S. Peschko wrote:
> And in any case, why should it be off-topic? I would think that 
> the possibility of your project being divided in two would be of 
> great concern to you guys, and that you'd have every single motivation to 
> convey any sort of apprehension that you might have about such a split 
> to the group that could prevent it. After all - lots of you are putting 
> a great effort into GNU software basically gratis...

I and many other GCC developers read a number of lists; this is not the 
only place we exist.  Thus, the fact that this is something that we 
might wish to discuss is not congruent with it being something that we 
want to discuss _here_.

What you are describing are reasons why we might want to discuss this in 
some forum elsewhere.  They are not reasons why it should be considered 
on-topic in this particular list.

- Brooks