Again, just heavily fascinating to see how you ignore the overall essence of this, which is of course directly related to gcc.
(bountysource is just a secondary disaster, it all starts here, at gcc. On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 12:19, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 07:48:50PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc-patches > wrote: > > On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 8:33 AM abebeos <lazaridis.com+abeb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > To me this sounds quite like an "disorganized mess, where bullies, > abusers and even IT-fascists can thrive". > > > > > > It is clear to me that some gcc project maintainers, the steering > committee and bountysource are crossing ethical (if not legal) boundaries. > > > > The GCC project maintainers and the steering committee are definitely > > not crossing ethical or legal boundaries here. > > > > I don't know anything about Bountysource. Bountysource is completely > > separate from GCC. It appears from your link that John Paul Adrian > > Glaubitz posted a bounty for some GCC work. A number of people and > > organizations supported the bounty, but the GCC project itself did > > not. Although the work is for GCC, the GCC project has nothing to do > > with that bounty. That is handled entirely by Bountysource. > > Yeah, all that happened on the GCC project side is the agreement > to deprecate and eventually remove ports that still rely on internal > details that were obsolete 20 years ago, see > https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2019-09/msg01256.html > and then patch review of changes that were posted to gcc-patches. > The GCC reviewers review posted patches based on the technical > merits and whether copyright assignment for parts that require copyright > assignment is available, regardless of whether the people who submit their > work did the work in their spare time without being compensated for it, > whether their employers compensated them for it, whether they got > contracted by > some company for that work or other means (e.g. bountysource). > All that is outside of the scope of the GCC project. > Bountysource AFAIK has its own terms and rules and I believe ultimately it > is the people who donated money for it that vote about that. > > Jakub > >
