GCC Mission Statement

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 6/9/21 10:39 AM, Valentino Giudice wrote:
> I was aware of that announcement, but it doesn't mention the mission
> statement at all.
> It appears that the decision in question was, at the time, in contrast
> with the mission statement (rather than guided by it).
> 
> If the Steering Committee updates the mission statement, it may appear
> that the mission statement follows the decisions of the steering
> committee (in place of the contrary). In that case, what would be the
> purpose of a mission statement?
> 
> The mission statement was also updated beyond simply making it
> consistent with the change: in "Supporting the goals of the GNU
> project, as defined by the FSF" the reference to the FSF was removed.

Quite a few projects under the GNU project[1] have dissociated 
themselves from the FSF, so "as defined by the FSF" perhaps doesn't 
apply as consistently as it did before.  That is my understanding 
anyway; maybe there's more context that others may be able to add.

Siddhesh

[1] https://gnu.tools/en/software/