GCC association with the FSF
Jonathan Wakely
jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 17:17:21 GMT 2021
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 15:04, David Malcolm wrote:
> For myself, I'm interested in copyleft low-level tools being used to
> build a Free Software operating system, but the "GNU" name may be
> permanently tarnished for me; I have no wish to be associated with a
> self-appointed "chief GNUisance". I hope the FSF can be saved, since
> it would be extremely inconvenient to have to move.
This matches my feelings. If the FSF can be saved, fine, but I don't
think GCC needs to remain associated with it.
If the GNU name is a problem, rename the projects to be simply "GCC",
"Glibc", "GDB" etc without being an initialism.
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