GCC association with the FSF

[Jason Merrill]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 AM Richard Biener via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On April 14, 2021 12:19:16 PM GMT+02:00, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> >N.B. Jeff is no longer @redhat.com so I've changed the CC
> >On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 11:03, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
> >wrote:
> >> - All gfortran developers move to the new branch.  This will not
> >>    happen, I can guarantee you that.
> >
> >This is the part I'm curious about (the rest is obvious, it follows
> >from there being finite resources and the nature of any fork). But I'm
> >not going to press for reasons.
>
> Note the only viable fork will be on the current hosting (which isn't FSF controlled) with the downside of eventually losing the gcc.gnu.org DNS and thus a need to "switch" to a sourceware.org name.

It seems wrong to call such a scenario a fork.  If someone wanted to
fork GCC they are free to do so, but changing the relationship with
GNU/FSF is not a fork, as there would continue to be one primary
source repository.

Jason