On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >> > The GCC maintainers work on behalf of the FSF and in some matters defer >> > to the FSF. It's that simple. >> >> Yes, but it's not written anywhere that release and especially branching >> policies are one of this matters. > > The matters to which we defer to the FSF are any matters that they *ask* > us to! They own the code. If RMS, for some reason, decides that he doesn't > like the phrasing of a comment somewhere, we have to either convince RMS > he's wrong or change the comment. > > As a practical matter, the FSF *delegates* most of their responsibilities > to the maintainer of the package, but they can undo that delegation as to > any matter any time they want. >
By this, FSF == RMS ?