> Does the FSF want anything about GCC? AFAIK, the plugin exception to the > runtime license was not wanted by the FSF. It was only wanted by the GCC > community (and probably the FSF was reluctant to any changes).
For good reason. Check out the mess that results from allowing plugins in the Asterisk system: it makes many of the advantages of it being Free Software go away. Minor technical advantages shouldn't have been enough to create that situation. I hope it never happens to GCC, but I'm not optimistic.